Los Angeles, California
Vista Theatre
The historic single-screen movie theater is one of only four cinemas in the world to screen films in VistaVison format.
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Los Angeles, California
The historic single-screen movie theater is one of only four cinemas in the world to screen films in VistaVison format.
Los Angeles, California
Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.
Los Angeles, California
A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.
Los Angeles, California
Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.
Los Angeles, California
This ship-shape Streamline Moderne building was once the headquarters of a nautically inclined radio preacher.
Los Angeles, California
Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, California
Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.
Los Angeles, California
The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.
Los Angeles, California
It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.
Los Angeles, California
High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.
Los Angeles, California
Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.
Los Angeles, California
This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.
Indio, California
A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.
Landers, California
Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.
Joshua Tree, California
Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.
Joshua Tree, California
An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.
Pioneertown, California
A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.
Pioneertown, California
A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.
Ojai, California
Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."
Big Sur, California
Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.
Burlingame, California
A comprehensive collection of Pez dispensers.
Sausalito, California
Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.
San Francisco, California
This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.
San Francisco, California
The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.