A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

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

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

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

In one Santa Monica parking lot a mushroom cloud made of chains heralds a message of peace.

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

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

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

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

A black and white mural stands out from its psychedelic surroundings.

Somewhere between an art studio and a print shop, this artists storefront is a house of worship devoted to type.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

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

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.