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

This park is home to California's first oil boomtown, with structures that have stood for more than a century.

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.

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

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

A B-17 bomber stands as a memorial to the residents of Tulare County who served in World War II.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

A beautiful memorial tells the story of a formerly enslaved woman whose kindness shaped a burgeoning city.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

A historic fort commemorating the United States' naval history.

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.

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

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.

A wild west scene starring life-sized wooden statues hides in the trees behind Pierce College.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.