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

The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

Hiding amid the largest camellia collection in the country lies a charming children's maze, donated by a secret admirer.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

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

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

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

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

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

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.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

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

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.