This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

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

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

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

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

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

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

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.