An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

Apartment building was once posh playground to the Hollywood elite.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

Where the first "expert riders, willing to risk death daily" for the Pony Express were recruited.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

Giant origami crease patterns engraved in Santa Monica intersections may even be visible from space.

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

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

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.