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One of California's oldest continually used high schools has an interesting history, both on and off screen.

This hands-on math museum believes in turning concepts into constructs.

A beautiful memorial tells the story of a formerly enslaved woman whose kindness shaped a burgeoning city.

A Los Angeles cemetery that was once at the center of a Supreme Court dispute.

Blink and you may miss this rustic pioneer cemetery.

A monument to the legacy of the man who created Spongebob Squarepants at the school where his passion for art and marine biology began.

Someone really, really wanted to save this fast-food icon from demolition.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

The world’s oldest active sailing ship.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

A Romanesque sanctuary of calm amid the bustle of downtown Los Angeles.

Inside this library, the history of Los Angeles is retold through a mural.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

A shockingly detailed small scale recreation of the temples of Abu Simbel.

This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.

A striking geological formation in Southern California.

This museum is a music lover's introduction to the iconic venue.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

The "Key of Keys" for Washington, D.C. and the apocryphal landing place for the military campaign that started George Washington's career is now at the bottom of a well.

Garments from across the globe call this hidden gem home.

When it comes to handsignals (and colonialism) rock always beats scissors.