The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."

California's oldest existing theater building hosted an impressive cast of celebrities, including hosting Mark Twain's first lecture.

The classic Atari game's iconic aliens have invaded downtown San Diego.

The timepiece that exonerated a labor radical accused of a parade bombing that killed ten people.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

Astronomers plan to launch a space telescope into orbit, to find out what exactly stands in the way of an asteroid hitting Earth.

A veteran Disney animator turned his gift for storytelling to a museum devoted to his love of a California city.

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

The newsstand that never closes its doors—well, almost never.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

Home of the "Father of Forestry."

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

The oldest orange tree in California spawned a generation of citrus farmers.

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

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

Pasadena’s Stonehenge.

The first attack on the continental U.S. during WWII occurred off the coast of a quiet California golf course.

Malibu's first beach home features an astonishing trove of ceramic tiles.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.