The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

One of the richest places in the United States has a cursed street.

Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

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

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

The beloved dining spot stands at the cross-section of Hollywood and the Old West.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.