Hidden in a hotel parking lot is a strange historical plaque erected by an obscure fraternal society.

Formerly Fire Station No. 27, the museum is a hidden gem in the heart of Hollywood.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

One of only five observatories in the world built to measure the Earth's wobble.

An abandoned lot littered with concrete debris was once the home of the world's first female railroad president.

A monument to the frontier doctor who came up with the idea of delineating highways with a painted line.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

Worker-owned cooperative and resource for those looking to lighten their ecological footprint.

The short oil boom of Venice Beach, and its swift removal from the tourism-laden landscape.

Spend a day hanging out with domesticated Russian foxes.

Giant origami crease patterns engraved in Santa Monica intersections may even be visible from space.

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

The timepiece that exonerated a labor radical accused of a parade bombing that killed ten people.

A working model of a pressure-driven, high-speed rail whizzes around a private vineyard.

This 1920s masterpiece of French Quarter architecture hides a secret tunnel used by Albert Einstein.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

Astronomers plan to launch a space telescope into orbit, to find out what exactly stands in the way of an asteroid hitting Earth.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

An homage to the man who built California's version of Venice.

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

A strange mishmash of ruins and abandoned structures hint at the park's many lives.