A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

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

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

A theme park featuring a replica of Noah's Ark built to the measurements specified in the Bible.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

The maze-like transportation hub contains abandoned areas, derelict stores, and a resident bat colony.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.