Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

This peaceful garden is hidden on the grounds of a spiritual organization founded by a pioneer yogi.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

Artist Jack Pierson made this surreal sculpture in honor of Wonder Valley, a countercultural community on edge of civilization.

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

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

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

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.