Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

A land of debatable treasure.

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

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

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

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

The first pet cemetery in the United States.

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

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

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.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

The colorful stairs are made with marble from the world's major quarries.

This 16th-century house tells the city's history through old artifacts and quirky tales.