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

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

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

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

This Taoist temple is the oldest continuously used Chinese temple in California.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

A sculpture dedicated to Napa Valley's oldest mineral water company.

Art Deco stylings conceal the true nature of this bridge.

Believe it or not, this is the final resting place of the man who created the Odditorium.

The largest drain hole in the world.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

An enormous artwork that colorfully celebrates over 150 years of US military achievements.

Deco Modern sculptures of the people of the Pacific, cast for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.

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

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.