Once the central jail for Los Angeles, this building housed inmates like Al Capone, those arrested from the Zoot Suit and Watts Riots, and individuals imprisoned for their sexuality.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

This park is home to California's first oil boomtown, with structures that have stood for more than a century.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

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

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

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