Los Angeles, California
Hollywood Sign
Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.
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Los Angeles, California
Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.
Los Angeles, California
Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.
Los Angeles, California
These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."
Los Angeles, California
Inside this library, the history of Los Angeles is retold through a mural.
Anaheim, California
The lead horse on a Disneyland merry-go-round that is older than the park itself.
Aptos, California
At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.
Big Sur, California
It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.
Santa Barbara, California
California's largest steel arch bridge.
Glendale, California
A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.
Los Angeles, California
An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.
Lemon Cove, California
This massive statue of John Muir on the side of a California highway was carved from a redwood tree.
Jensen, Utah
Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.
Berkeley, California
A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.
Bakersfield, California
An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.
San Luis Obispo, California
A simple statue outside a California Amtrak station honors the overlooked contributions of the "silent spikes."
Ojai, California
Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."
Los Angeles, California
The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.
San Francisco, California
Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.
San Francisco, California
This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.
Hillsborough, California
A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.
Auburn, California
A dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.
Lodi, California
A plaque and memorabilia collection mark where A&W got its start.
Rough and Ready, California
The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.
Grass Valley, California
The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.