A historic fort commemorating the United States' naval history.

This museum honors the first Spanish land grant in California which is still in the hands of the original owner's family.

The creator of the carousel's bingo-pinball hybrid survives in California's oldest gaming establishment.

Built by one man in the '20s, this site is now a museum representing the Great Basin cultures.

The simple auditorium that launched a pop icon's career into the stratosphere.

Some of the most unusual (and in some cases, disgusting) flavors of soda imaginable.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

An urban laboratory.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

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.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

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

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.