A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.