Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

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.

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

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

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

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Iconic Los Angeles residence famous for its 19 statues of Michelangelo's David.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

Celebrating the accomplishments of Black firefighters in Los Angeles.