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

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

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

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

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

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

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

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

An ambitious developer built what was once the world's tallest fountain in a Phoenix suburb.

A maze-like landscape of globular rocks surrounding two Arizona lakes.

A kaleidoscope gallery and steampunk emporium named for a pioneering journalist.

This striking church was built from a Frank Lloyd Wright design more than a decade after the master architect's death.

This tucked-away cemetery is the final resting place of a prospector who uncovered one of the largest gold mines in Arizona.

This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

This small memorial is dedicated to the Perryville State Prison firefighters who perished fighting the Dude Fire in 1990.

A disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright built an experimental, partially underground home in the desert.

A historic jail preserves etchings from over a century of incarcerated people in a town with a rough and tumble past.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.