Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

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

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

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

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

Santa Monica's oldest restaurant, decorated with set pieces from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

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

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

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 real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

A black and white mural stands out from its psychedelic surroundings.

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

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

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

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

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