"The greatest unknown literary treasure in Los Angeles."

A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

Santa Monica's oldest restaurant, decorated with set pieces from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

Odd stone and concrete monuments in the "Poet of the Sierras" eclectic folly garden.

Experience the "opulence, grace, and grandeur of Eureka's most famous Victorian Inn."

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.

The only parking meter in the entire town, it is surrounded by 100 free spaces.

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

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

Educational foundation that teaches the powers of fourth dimensional physical properties.

A bright California graveyard with a decidedly dark side.

Inky sludge oozes to the surface of this beach thanks to a rare natural tar seep.

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.