A black and white mural stands out from its psychedelic surroundings.

A bright California graveyard with a decidedly dark side.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

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

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.

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

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

"Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament."

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

A wooden theatre that remains the heart of a charming Victorian-era New Jersey enclave.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.

This old-world mansion with lush gardens is a gem in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.