Wild West history in Hollywood style.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

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.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

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

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.

Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.

A little slice of Florida face-in-a-hole kitsch, unexpectedly located in a small New Mexico town.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

The 7,000-year-old calcium carbonate formation creates a magnificent natural bridge.