A quirky collection of figurines backdropped by city views is hidden next to a popular restaurant in the Hollywood hills.

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

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

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

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

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

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

This historic tower in the California desert promises visitors a "vortex of good vibes".

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

This seaside production studio was built to film 'Titanic' and has been the wet set of choice for other Hollywood productions since.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.