A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

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

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

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

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

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

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

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

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

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

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

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

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.