Balconies that have a most unusual accent.

Will Geer's outdoor theater started as a mountain retreat for actors, musicians, and other artists who were blacklisted during the Red Scare.

The beloved dining spot stands at the cross-section of Hollywood and the Old West.

A strange mishmash of ruins and abandoned structures hint at the park's many lives.

A few iconic structures are all that remain of America’s first outdoor shopping mall.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

This legendary urban waterfall creates a dazzling display of rainbows.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

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

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

A restored 1920s cascade stairway provides one of the best views of Oakland's Lake Merritt.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

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