A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

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

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

The short oil boom of Venice Beach, and its swift removal from the tourism-laden landscape.

"The only replacement for a DC-3 is another DC-3."

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

Death road of Bolivia.

A Community Cornerstone.

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

The sun acts as a key that only fits this giant keyhole twice a year.