A lovely summer day by the sea becomes a nightmare.

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

Iconic Los Angeles residence famous for its 19 statues of Michelangelo's David.

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

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

An homage to the man who built California's version of Venice.

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

A tribute to long time Venice Beach resident, artist and actor Dennis Hopper.

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

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

A Cold War site complete with rusty structures, hiking trails, and beautiful views.

Will Geer's outdoor theater started as a mountain retreat for actors, musicians, and other artists who were blacklisted during the Red Scare.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

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

A bright California graveyard with a decidedly dark side.

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

The first privately-owned space capsule to orbit and land carried a secret payload: a wheel of Le Brouère.

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

Murder, searching for gold, and being cut in half—the memorial statue of Daniel O. McCarthy and the Pioneers of '49

Anza led the first Spanish settlers from Mexico to Monterey, California in the 1770s.

This "synagogue" is not what it seems to be.

A forgotten tribute to a South American hero hidden in a cluster of traffic islands.