No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

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

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

Iconic Los Angeles residence famous for its 19 statues of Michelangelo's David.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.

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

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

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

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

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

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.

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