One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The most confusing clock in New York.

A mysterious and endangered parasitic herb from the California desert.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

Some of the most unusual (and in some cases, disgusting) flavors of soda imaginable.

Making Ice Cream Hip Since 2008.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

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

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.