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

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

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

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

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

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

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

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

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

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

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

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The original span of a high bridge across the deep Crooked River Gorge has been preserved for pedestrian use.