Each winter this underground cave forms a dazzling ice palace.

Special tunnels built so that frogs won't be killed when crossing the highway.

This childhood throwback has hundreds of arcade games and pinball machines to transport you back in time.

Victoriana on Orange Grove Avenue.

This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.

Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

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

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

This graffiti-covered bridge is the quintessential vision of a place for disillusioned youth to escape the complexities of burgeoning adulthood.

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

This Southern Californian Conservation Center is home to singing and howling apes.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

A master of deception, Harry Houdini's greatest trick may have been living in two places at once.

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

Raised illegally, Reggie now lives at the Los Angeles Zoo after authorities spent years tracking him down.

This diner's a kitschy dreamland for anyone whose heart is stuck in the 1980s.

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

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