The sculptor was instructed to add “stallion attributes” to the general's bronze mare.

The world's first disc golf course has the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a neighbor.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

An airy would-be solution to a housing shortage.

Two groundbreaking brothers from Pasadena.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

This magnificent mausoleum is as much a work of art as it is a historic resting place.

Pasadena’s Stonehenge.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.

The neighborhood of Eagle Rock is named after a gigantic boulder with a shadowy surprise.

Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.

A poignant memorial to a young boy whose death spurred a dramatic increase in organ donations in Italy—dubbed the "Nicholas Effect."

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

This lonesome Monterey cypress has survived centuries of wind, salt, and at least one attempt at arson.