The last of its kind in the country.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

The most popular attraction in Southern California was once a flock of ornery bipedal birds that pulled carts.

An airy would-be solution to a housing shortage.

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

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

A veteran Disney animator turned his gift for storytelling to a museum devoted to his love of a California city.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.