This well-traveled chess park offers scenic views of the pacific and a colorful, eclectic clientele.

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

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

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.

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

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

A black and white painted wall creates an optical illusion in the California desert.

Iconic Los Angeles residence famous for its 19 statues of Michelangelo's David.

Once a purveyor of Santeria supplies, religious products , and household sundries, now closed.

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.

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.