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

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

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

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.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

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

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

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

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

The last of its kind in the country.

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

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

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

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

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.