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

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

A pair of disused Los Angeles electrical poles now glow with delicate windows into the past.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

Known as the "Hobbit Houses," these storybook homes look like they're straight out of the Shire.

This roadside attraction looks like a flying saucer parked atop the tundra.

The underground mall's skylights look like they could be part of a spaceship.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.

A tribute to the movie stars who fought to keep Beverly Hills separate from Los Angeles.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

An ultra-modern vista that has been featured in so many films the house is a celebrity in its own right.

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

A 28-exhibit museum about the history, culture, and oddities of money. Visitors stand in a cash shower, try to crack a vault, and discover what it's like to barter when no money is allowed.

The materials from one of the United Kingdom’s most famous animation studios are now preserved in a suburban library.

A museum dedicated to secret surveillance.

A massive work of modern art that appears to be a crop circle in the middle of the desert.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.