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

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

A California city claims to be the home of a fast-food classic.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

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

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

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

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

A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.

This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.

Don't bother sending any mail to this ghost town.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

This Chase branch is an homage to Old Hollywood.

A newspaper building that made radio history.

"The Star Factory" cranked out Hollywood stars like nobody's business.

Two groundbreaking brothers from Pasadena.

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

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

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.