An abandoned 1930s gas station turned bustling neighborhood park.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

A non-native grove of 241 redwoods in Southern California.

The "Kill Bill Church" was transformed into a place of worship after a long Hollywood history.

Built for an exposition in 1915, these horticultural displays have stood the test of time.

Hidden beneath a lake for decades, this brutalist mine has now emerged from beneath the receding waters.

The Citrus Variety Collection at UC Riverside contains two trees of each of the 1,000+ varieties of citrus.

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

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

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

This nondescript tunnel has been featured in a number of iconic movies, from “Roger Rabbit” to “Back to the Future.”

An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

Southern California’s Theme Park Beginnings.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

A plaque and memorabilia collection mark where A&W got its start.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

Suburban observatory was personal lab of the father of modern astrophysics.

This "synagogue" is not what it seems to be.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

Once the central jail for Los Angeles, this building housed inmates like Al Capone, those arrested from the Zoot Suit and Watts Riots, and individuals imprisoned for their sexuality.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.