Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

A fashion designer's dazzling world of Japanese collectibles is hidden in a warehouse downtown.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

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

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

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

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

A unique collection of drawings that represent Fremont Native American culture.

Not your typical pet cemetery.

Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.

This outsider art paradise is filled with dinosaur sculptures crafted from recycled machinery.

"May the force be with you always."