L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.

Pasadena’s Stonehenge.

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

This nondescript tunnel has been featured in a number of iconic movies, from “Roger Rabbit” to “Back to the Future.”

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

This jagged colossus of a building is mostly held together by an enormous concrete exoskeleton.

This sculpture presents commentary on a life in pursuit of profits.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

This humble American Craftsman home is where the Disney brothers’ animation business took flight in 1923.

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

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

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.