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

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

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

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

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

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

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

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

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

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.