The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

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

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

An underwater city for the dead.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.