Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

Because there's no place like home.

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

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

A cake-themed art installation tucked away in historic Chinatown.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

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

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

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.