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

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.

Find regional specialties from the Thai-Laotian border inside in a North Hollywood swap meet's food court.

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

An Old West film set seen in countless TV shows and movies is open for the public to explore.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

Where decommissioned airplanes and helicopters go to become part of Hollywood.

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

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

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

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

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

The "Kill Bill Church" was transformed into a place of worship after a long Hollywood history.

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.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

The beautiful behemoth is one of the largest trees of its kind in the United States.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

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