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

Opened as part of the New Deal, the training facility now features World War II-era structures and a pylon that once stood at the World Trade Center.

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

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

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

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

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

A relief that wraps around the concourse of Los Angeles's World Trade Center marks one of the city's failed urban design plans.

Though the original building has been demolished, these massive bronze doors were saved.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

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

A 50-foot tile mural mosaic for the 100-year anniversary of the Statue of Liberty.

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

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.

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

The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove.

A magnificent, reportedly haunted mansion built for a composer by Spiritualists.

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

This historic tower in the California desert promises visitors a "vortex of good vibes".