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

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

A gift from Abbot Kinney and a little bit of piece of Black history in Venice Beach.

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

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

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

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

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

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

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

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

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