A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

One of the best collections of antique printing machinery in the world.

An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.

This abandoned motel doesn't welcome guests anymore, but decay and a creepy atmosphere still call it home.

An archive of nearly every day of Buckminster Fuller's life.

A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

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

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

A free library to stumble across, one of many placed worldwide if you know where to look.

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

If you are looking for a used Russian battery, Chinese Ham Radio or other electronic oddities this Flea Market is a good place to start.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

The sun acts as a key that only fits this giant keyhole twice a year.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.