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

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

An art collective teaching the more fiery, metal-y art forms.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

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

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

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.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

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

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

This jagged colossus of a building is mostly held together by an enormous concrete exoskeleton.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

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

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

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

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 real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.