Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

A beautiful memorial tells the story of a formerly enslaved woman whose kindness shaped a burgeoning city.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

This peaceful garden is hidden on the grounds of a spiritual organization founded by a pioneer yogi.

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

Behind legendary Meltdown Comics is a marker for an engineered musical roadway of the Tehachapi, the great road builders of Kcymaerxthaere.

This Chase branch is an homage to Old Hollywood.

Founded by a high school teacher, this poetry magazine became a center for all things literary.

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

This iconic 1958 tower welcomes air travelers to Tucson with neon-lit letters and architectural style.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

Although he donated over 3,000 acres to Los Angles, Griffith's life was marred by controversy.