This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

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

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

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

A few iconic structures are all that remain of America’s first outdoor shopping mall.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

"The greatest unknown literary treasure in Los Angeles."

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

This stately structure has been abandoned for half a century.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

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

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

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

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

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.