A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

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

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

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

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

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

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

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

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.