One of the only known surviving coconut palm trees in the entire state.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

French prisoners carved these boats from the bones of their meat rations.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

The saga of the massive nut begins and ends in Texas.

A musical sanctuary that preserves gospel’s Golden Age is tucked inside a library at Baylor University.

A 2,500-pound wooden nickel makes this woodworking museum easy to spot from the road.

This relatively recently abandoned brewery is a tragic reminder of the continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina.

One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.

A newspaper building that made radio history.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

The beautiful behemoth is one of the largest trees of its kind in the United States.

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

Marvel of green building techniques that sings with the wind.

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

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

A treasure hunter's tiny bar, harboring celebrities since 1959.