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

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

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

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

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

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

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

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

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.