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.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

Opened as part of the New Deal, the training facility now features World War II-era structures and a pylon that once stood at the World Trade Center.

A bright California graveyard with a decidedly dark side.

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

An homage to the man who built California's version of Venice.

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

A gift from Abbot Kinney and a little bit of piece of Black history in Venice Beach.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

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

Santa Monica's oldest restaurant, decorated with set pieces from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

The first all glass and steel residence in the United States.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

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

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

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

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.