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

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."

This peaceful garden is hidden on the grounds of a spiritual organization founded by a pioneer yogi.

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

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

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

Antiques by the Bay.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.