An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.

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

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

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A Cold War site complete with rusty structures, hiking trails, and beautiful views.

This park is home to California's first oil boomtown, with structures that have stood for more than a century.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

Malibu's first beach home features an astonishing trove of ceramic tiles.

The restored estate of a wealthy rancher was once at the heart of an unprecedented legal victory.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.

A basement full of treasures lies beneath this inn that has worn many hats throughout its 140+ years.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

Inky sludge oozes to the surface of this beach thanks to a rare natural tar seep.

Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.