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

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

Experience a charming 1930s version of "infotainment."

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

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.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

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

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

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

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

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

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.