A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

These beautiful garden buildings are among the oldest surviving greenhouses in the United States.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.

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

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

This collector's home is a constant work in progress.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

An airy would-be solution to a housing shortage.

A rare surviving example of a pre-WWII Japanese garden, restored after years of neglect.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

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

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

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.