San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

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

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.

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

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.