The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

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.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

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

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

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

Where a railroad loops under or over itself to rise or drop more than 70 feet in a short distance.

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

This unassuming building produced some of the world's most famous bells.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

The final resting place of a German diplomat's beloved companion.

The bronze uniforms commemorate the vital role of women during World War II.

You will not be able to miss this building.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.