A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

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

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

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.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

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

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

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.