Built by one man in the '20s, this site is now a museum representing the Great Basin cultures.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

This Southern Californian Conservation Center is home to singing and howling apes.

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

A spiritual center in the Santa Monica Mountains founded by Alice Coltrane after the death of her husband and fellow jazz musician John Coltrane.

An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A performance hall at the American Jewish University moonlights as a sci-fi film location set.

Malibu's first beach home features an astonishing trove of ceramic tiles.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

The mysterious, untimely death of a Canned Heat band member still haunts this unfinished home.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.