When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

The largest drain hole in the world.

Art Deco stylings conceal the true nature of this bridge.

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

The ruins of the movie ranch owned by actor and stuntman Ray "Crash" Corrigan.

The White House Situation Room was taken apart in 2006 and shipped to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

Drink a Guinness under the wings of Reagan's retired Air Force One in his presidential library.

Outsider art or homage to aliens?

Special tunnels built so that frogs won't be killed when crossing the highway.

Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.