Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

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

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

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

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.