A gift from Abbot Kinney and a little bit of piece of Black history in Venice Beach.

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

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.

A granite waterfall cascading down is one of the highest multi-tiered falls in the state.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.