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

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

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

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

Authentic gondola hanging from the ceiling, notable mural in the back room.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

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

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

You don't have to be a diplomat to visit the so-called Camp David of the West.

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

The island of Lanai in Hawai'i is a paradise for cats and cat lovers.

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

A rare wayfinding portmanteau of “Street” and “Avenue.”

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.