I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

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

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

These four islands right offshore have waterfalls, colorful lights, fancy buildings, and a secret purpose.

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

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

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.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

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

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

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

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

Authentic gondola hanging from the ceiling, notable mural in the back room.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

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

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

You don't have to be a diplomat to visit the so-called Camp David of the West.

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.