A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

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

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

In the "Danish Capital of America," a replica of one of Copenhagen's most iconic buildings.

California's largest steel arch bridge.

Grab a latte at the birthplace of modern American skateboarding.

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

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

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

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

These two K-9 memorials commemorate the sister cities of Edinburgh and San Diego.

The oldest standing structure in downtown San Diego.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

After James Madison's death, his wife and former First Lady Dolley Madison lived in this yellow building near the White House.

The largest and best-preserved rotunda in Prague.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.