A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

Huge hole looks down onto an underground beach populated with sea lions.

A 19th-century Baja cantina that many say is the birthplace of the margarita.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Oldest building in California still in use.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

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

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

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

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

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

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

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

Hiding amid the largest camellia collection in the country lies a charming children's maze, donated by a secret admirer.