Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

Making Ice Cream Hip Since 2008.

A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

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

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Hiding amid the largest camellia collection in the country lies a charming children's maze, donated by a secret admirer.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

Fans of the spicy bright-red sauce can tour where it's made.

One of the best collections of antique printing machinery in the world.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

Oldest building in California still in use.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.