Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.

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

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

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.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling) themed taco shop.

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

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.