This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

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

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

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

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

This 15-story mural celebrates the 50th anniversary of the musician's iconic "At Folsom Prison" album.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

At the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, a small sign basically begs for a high-five.