One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

Two groundbreaking brothers from Pasadena.

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

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

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

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

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

Ancient serpentine sacrifice holder that has stood the test of time.