Celebrating the accomplishments of Black firefighters in Los Angeles.

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

This Chinese art gallery is hidden inside the Sunrider Corporation headquarters.

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

This 75-year-old Shakespearean sculpture is painted by a local artist for every season.

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

Explore the wide world of desert plants at this unique Palm Springs botanical garden.

This simple highway curve has become a comedic pilgrimage site.

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.