The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A Biblically-based Natural History Museum.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.

A bronze tribute to a legendary Californian, the self-proclaimed "Emperor of the United States."

Enormous crabs, bioluminescent jellies, and other amazing creatures from the ocean’s depths—some of which are in an aquarium for the first time ever.

The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

This unique sanctuary invites you to interact with the beautiful birds.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

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

Over one million bird-related artifacts await.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.