A fleet of automotive automatons sleep in this otherwise unremarkable urban garage.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

The American Home, Re-imagined.

A huge collection of rocks, gems, and crystals.

Celebrating the accomplishments of Black firefighters in Los Angeles.

The Citrus Variety Collection at UC Riverside contains two trees of each of the 1,000+ varieties of citrus.

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.

These four islands right offshore have waterfalls, colorful lights, fancy buildings, and a secret purpose.

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

A small, peaceful sculpture garden with a grim memorial to a disaster that took place a few blocks away.

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

Subterranean house made out of a grain silo, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

The final resting place of the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.

Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.

Hidden among the multi-million dollar mansions in the Santa Cruz hills is a sanctuary for troubled birds.

An archive of nearly every day of Buckminster Fuller's life.

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.