This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

This hands-on math museum believes in turning concepts into constructs.

A comprehensive collection of Pez dispensers.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

The American rainmaker and a burst dam.

A commonwealth favorite in the heart of Pasadena.

A sculpture dedicated to Napa Valley's oldest mineral water company.

A tribute to one man's legacy of improving the accordion's reputation.

This painted marvel is San Francisco's 400-foot ode to urban biking.

A museum dedicated to the decorative arts from the 16th through 19th centuries.

This secluded date farm can be reached only by following a bumpy, single-lane desert road.

The world’s first stop-motion film was created on the racetrack outside this building.

A statue commemorating the heroic life of a Viking postman who was the Godfather of California skiing.

Built in 1895, this bed and breakfast was once a hospital that served an early 1900s Gold Rush boomtown.

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

What began as an illegal art installation has become a symbol for unity, ocean awareness, and coastline preservation.

The final resting place of one of Hollywood’s most prolific and talented actors is on the grounds of a California Mission.

Downieville's largest Gold Rush structure still standing has one of the longest bars in California.

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

A B-17 bomber stands as a memorial to the residents of Tulare County who served in World War II.