Centuries of biking history are nestled in the shadow of the birthplace of contemporary mountain biking.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

The garage at the childhood home of Steve Jobs was a hangout for the founders of Apple, even if they never built computers there.

This simple highway curve has become a comedic pilgrimage site.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

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

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.