This medieval village/restaurant perpetually celebrates the year 1376.

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

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.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

A free library to stumble across, one of many placed worldwide if you know where to look.

This park is home to California's first oil boomtown, with structures that have stood for more than a century.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

A Cold War site complete with rusty structures, hiking trails, and beautiful views.

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

A wild west scene starring life-sized wooden statues hides in the trees behind Pierce College.

These artworks take you traveling to mythical medieval Europe, the politicized grape fields of 1960s California, and deep below sea level.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

The mysterious, untimely death of a Canned Heat band member still haunts this unfinished home.

A cow in the road might subvert the flow of traffic but this one's above it all, quite literally.

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.

The ruins of the movie ranch owned by actor and stuntman Ray "Crash" Corrigan.