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

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

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.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

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

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

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

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

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

No one is quite sure of the origins of these idyllic natural hot springs at an abandoned mountain resort.

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

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

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

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

One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.

The largest copper mine in Arizona, this enormous open pit emerges from the hills like an alien landscape.

This Old West prison built into the side of a cliff was said to be inescapable.

This fireplace-turned-monument pays tribute to the assassinated U.S. president.

A stone pillar commemorates the surrender of the extraordinary Apache leader.