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

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

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

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

The White House Situation Room was taken apart in 2006 and shipped to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.

The huge granite obelisk that towers over a small California town.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."