Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

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.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

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

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

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

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.