This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.

Standing in for the first ship to navigate the Northwest Passage.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

The newsstand that never closes its doors—well, almost never.

Apartment building was once posh playground to the Hollywood elite.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

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

A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

Home to one of the world’s largest collections of model yachts.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

Where a great scandal unfolded with a famous female revivalist at its center.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

Deco Modern sculptures of the people of the Pacific, cast for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

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

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.