It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.