Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

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

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

A historic fort commemorating the United States' naval history.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

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.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

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

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.