A relief that wraps around the concourse of Los Angeles's World Trade Center marks one of the city's failed urban design plans.

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 mysterious, untimely death of a Canned Heat band member still haunts this unfinished home.

You don't want to get caught in this trap--or do you?

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

The final resting place of one of Hollywood’s most prolific and talented actors is on the grounds of a California Mission.

A 1950s Googie burger stand is now a Los Angeles landmark.

A classic American barn that was the home of a classic American television star.

A Cold War site complete with rusty structures, hiking trails, and beautiful views.

These artworks take you traveling to mythical medieval Europe, the politicized grape fields of 1960s California, and deep below sea level.

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.

Giant scissors seemingly stabbed into the side of a hair salon leave no question about the vocation of the owners.

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

From sax to spuds, get 'em all at this landmark music establishment.

Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.

This California estate was either haunted by ghosts or the Marx brothers.

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

Location of the most powerful laser in the world, and the potential birthplace of tiny stars.

The longest burning light bulb in the world.

The first mural ever dedicated to the women of the Black Panther Party.