Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

A fine mixture of the old and the new topped with an art deco neon spire.

California's oldest existing theater building hosted an impressive cast of celebrities, including hosting Mark Twain's first lecture.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

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

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

This California tree is the single source of the state's entire orange industry.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

This Chase branch is an homage to Old Hollywood.

From sax to spuds, get 'em all at this landmark music establishment.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.