This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The last of its kind in the country.

This Chase branch is an homage to Old Hollywood.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

Because there's no place like home.

Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.