A cake-themed art installation tucked away in historic Chinatown.

A fashion designer's dazzling world of Japanese collectibles is hidden in a warehouse downtown.

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

Founded by a high school teacher, this poetry magazine became a center for all things literary.

From sax to spuds, get 'em all at this landmark music establishment.

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

Though the original building has been demolished, these massive bronze doors were saved.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

A macabre tour of Hollywood’s deadly history.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

This futuristic bridge is one of the longest self-anchored pedestrian bridges in the world.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.