Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

This park is home to California's first oil boomtown, with structures that have stood for more than a century.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

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

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

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

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

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.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

One of two side-by-side totem pole parks dedicated to educating visitors on Tlingit history and culture.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

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