A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

A small, peaceful sculpture garden with a grim memorial to a disaster that took place a few blocks away.

These four islands right offshore have waterfalls, colorful lights, fancy buildings, and a secret purpose.

One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.

Fans of vintage Vegas, kitsch, and toy pony-based gambling now flock to a casino called The D.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

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

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

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

A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

Raised illegally, Reggie now lives at the Los Angeles Zoo after authorities spent years tracking him down.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.