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A monument to the love people have for their pets.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

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

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.