One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.

A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

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

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.