A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

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

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

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

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 "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.