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

"You don't need a rocket scientist to build a steam engine, but we've got one." -Museum docent on the credentials of a restoration volunteer.

Spend a day hanging out with domesticated Russian foxes.

An homage to the man who built California's version of Venice.

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.

One man's love of natural beauty led to the creation of this hidden granite monument.

Folk art crafted from discarded vegetable crates.

The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

At 130 years old and 126 feet tall, it is the largest known example of the rare Torrey pine tree.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

Gnomes have their very own bonsai-landscaped settlement on a university campus.

Instead of hoofing it up steep stairs, residents can hitch a ride on this private lift.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

Working mining and drilling equipment demonstrate 150 years of energy history.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

Pasadena’s Stonehenge.

Apartment building was once posh playground to the Hollywood elite.

Abandoned landscape once home to "the world's largest winery."

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.