Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

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

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

This California tree is the single source of the state's entire orange industry.

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

The Citrus Variety Collection at UC Riverside contains two trees of each of the 1,000+ varieties of citrus.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

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

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.