A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

A military vehicle collection, showcasing how war transportation advanced from horse drawn artillery to self propelled cannons.

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Making Ice Cream Hip Since 2008.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.

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

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The last street in Pittsburgh that's paved with wood.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

An unassuming store hides relics of its former life as the jazz club that hosted some of the best black performers of the 1920s and '30s.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

At 130 years old and 126 feet tall, it is the largest known example of the rare Torrey pine tree.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.