From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

A spiritual center in the Santa Monica Mountains founded by Alice Coltrane after the death of her husband and fellow jazz musician John Coltrane.

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

Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.

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

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

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

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

This humble American Craftsman home is where the Disney brothers’ animation business took flight in 1923.

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

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

In the country around Buttonwillow, California, a marker commemorates a revealing moment in the story of a water colony from the fictional Kcymaerxthaere that sought independence.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

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

This park is home to California's first oil boomtown, with structures that have stood for more than a century.

According to legend it was a nap taken under this tree that kicked off the California Gold Rush.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

The little house that stood up to a disastrous flood has become a symbol of perseverance.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

The only example of a Paris Métro sign in use at a subway station outside of the French capital. 

Its columns were all carved from the same white oak tree.