Places Edited by MtnLady

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

This general store offers visitors a glimpse back into the 1930s.

The stone walls of a home built to withstand a California wildfire still stand after more than a century.

The beautiful behemoth is one of the largest trees of its kind in the United States.

Perched high atop telephone poles is an uncanny outdoor art gallery that greets passersby on their commute.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

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

One of Los Angeles's first murals once vibrantly depicted the dangers of United States imperialism.

One incredible room in the Santa Barbara Courthouse is covered in wall-to-wall canvas murals.

Also known as the Founding Church of Scientology.

This historic aviation building is now a museum owned and operated by Disney.

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

Sojourn to the past at this residence teeming with 1950s memorabilia.

The ruins of the movie ranch owned by actor and stuntman Ray "Crash" Corrigan.

The innocent intentions of this monument are somewhat lost in the sculpture's muscled imagery.

A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

The oldest structure in a beachside California city was built to serve eight students.

These unusual houses look like giant boats that washed ashore on a residential street.

Founded by a high school teacher, this poetry magazine became a center for all things literary.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.