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.

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

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

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

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

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

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Made famous by cable TV, this oddball collection of antiques and collectibles is a cut above the rest.

This museum honors the first Spanish land grant in California which is still in the hands of the original owner's family.

Known as the "Hobbit Houses," these storybook homes look like they're straight out of the Shire.

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.

Found: Garden of Eden in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

Many people don't realize there’s a lot going on in—and below—the world’s tallest triumphal arch.