The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Preserved behind glass, the ruins of a medieval building used to store human remains.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

This unassuming building houses one of the world's most extensive collections of cars created by automotive legend Carroll Shelby.

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.

"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

This private home is famous for appearing in the cult-classic "Twin Peaks" series.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

This 15-story mural celebrates the 50th anniversary of the musician's iconic "At Folsom Prison" album.

Where the first "expert riders, willing to risk death daily" for the Pony Express were recruited.

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

The short oil boom of Venice Beach, and its swift removal from the tourism-laden landscape.

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.

Apartment building was once posh playground to the Hollywood elite.

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

In one Santa Monica parking lot a mushroom cloud made of chains heralds a message of peace.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

Giant origami crease patterns engraved in Santa Monica intersections may even be visible from space.

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.