From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

Giant scissors seemingly stabbed into the side of a hair salon leave no question about the vocation of the owners.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

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

A rare surviving example of a pre-WWII Japanese garden, restored after years of neglect.

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

Some of the most unusual (and in some cases, disgusting) flavors of soda imaginable.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

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

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.