Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

Raised illegally, Reggie now lives at the Los Angeles Zoo after authorities spent years tracking him down.

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

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

Oldest building in California still in use.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

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

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

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

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

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

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.