The Hopi-style structure was built by the man who discovered Desert Hot Springs' famous mineral water.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

Because there's no place like home.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

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

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

Mexican food and folk art.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

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

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.