Also known as the Founding Church of Scientology.

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

This unacceptably tall building was the real reason for Washington, D.C.'s skyscraper ban.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

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

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

A replica of the first public theater built in California.

Art Deco stylings conceal the true nature of this bridge.

Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

The only standing town in the United States that early Chinese Americans built for themselves.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

The oldest house in the capital of Silicon Valley.

The Internet Age began with a transmission from this biker bar.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

The world’s first stop-motion film was created on the racetrack outside this building.

The oldest Naval cemetery on the West Coast.