An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

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

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

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

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.