"Looks so real, it's scary!"

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

A performance hall at the American Jewish University moonlights as a sci-fi film location set.

An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

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.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

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

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

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

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall but rather lightning.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.