The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

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

A landmark for a trailblazer for female architects and the designer of one of the most famous and opulent buildings in California.

Two groundbreaking brothers from Pasadena.

A newspaper building that made radio history.

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

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

A black and white mural stands out from its psychedelic surroundings.

A gift from Abbot Kinney and a little bit of piece of Black history in Venice Beach.

Where a great scandal unfolded with a famous female revivalist at its center.

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

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

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

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

The narrowest street in Paris.