The "Seinfeld" diner.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

A miniature train theme park, free to the public, laying at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains.

In the "Danish Capital of America," a replica of one of Copenhagen's most iconic buildings.

The world's first disc golf course has the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a neighbor.

Art Deco stylings conceal the true nature of this bridge.

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

From silent movie theater to rock &roll palace and beyond.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

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

Two groundbreaking brothers from Pasadena.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

A relief that wraps around the concourse of Los Angeles's World Trade Center marks one of the city's failed urban design plans.

A landmark for a trailblazer for female architects and the designer of one of the most famous and opulent buildings in California.

"The Star Factory" cranked out Hollywood stars like nobody's business.

The American Home, Re-imagined.

These structures were inspired by both Native American shelters as well as, strangely, an ice cream shop.

Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.