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

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

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

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

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

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

Triangular House built on a leafy residential street in St. Paul.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

A museum dedicated to the exploring past, present, and future innovations.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

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

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

A relic from a forgotten bakery chain still spins atop a diner.

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

An unexpected and peaceful oasis on a hillside.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

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

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

A sculpture of a flying hawk made from colorful car doors.