World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

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

The neighborhood of Eagle Rock is named after a gigantic boulder with a shadowy surprise.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

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

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

Dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

Sojourn to the past at this residence teeming with 1950s memorabilia.

It would be a crime to miss it.

This historic graveyard was partially paved over to create a streetcar line.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

The world's first motel is now an administrative building for an apple farm.

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

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

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

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.