Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

A landmark for a trailblazer for female architects and the designer of one of the most famous and opulent buildings in California.

Two groundbreaking brothers from Pasadena.

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

Oldest building in California still in use.

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

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

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

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

This simple highway curve has become a comedic pilgrimage site.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

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