It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

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.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

A small, peaceful sculpture garden with a grim memorial to a disaster that took place a few blocks away.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

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

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

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

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

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