Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

The world's largest bioluminescent area was undiscovered by science until 2005.

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an eighth-century Buddhist master.

This nonsensical smiling boat shuttles passengers between two places they could've easily walked between.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

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

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

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

This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

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

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

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

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

This hidden amusement park is a magical escape for kids and kids-at-heart.

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