Places Riot Leviathan Wants to Go

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

This Southern Californian Conservation Center is home to singing and howling apes.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

According to legend it was a nap taken under this tree that kicked off the California Gold Rush.

Gouged in the mountain to make stage coach access easier through the Fremont Pass.

The White House Situation Room was taken apart in 2006 and shipped to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

A performance hall at the American Jewish University moonlights as a sci-fi film location set.

Drink a Guinness under the wings of Reagan's retired Air Force One in his presidential library.

Abandoned in 2009, this once popular resort destination now stands frozen in time.

French prisoners carved these boats from the bones of their meat rations.

Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.

Over one million bird-related artifacts await.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

A basement full of treasures lies beneath this inn that has worn many hats throughout its 140+ years.

A spiritual center in the Santa Monica Mountains founded by Alice Coltrane after the death of her husband and fellow jazz musician John Coltrane.

The beloved dining spot stands at the cross-section of Hollywood and the Old West.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

The stone walls of a home built to withstand a California wildfire still stand after more than a century.

You don't want to get caught in this trap--or do you?

The mysterious, untimely death of a Canned Heat band member still haunts this unfinished home.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

Malibu's first beach home features an astonishing trove of ceramic tiles.