A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

This large pile of traveler-curated rocks by the dry lakebed is a longstanding tradition on the Old Mojave Road.

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.

This childhood throwback has hundreds of arcade games and pinball machines to transport you back in time.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

A living museum dedicated to the legendary woodworker and his soulful furniture.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

The Mighty Wurlitzer organ continues to belt out the tunes at downtown El Segundo's historic home for silent and classic movies.

Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.

A treasure hunter's tiny bar, harboring celebrities since 1959.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.