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

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

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

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

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

The last of its kind in the country.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

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

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

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

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

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

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

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.