Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

This peaceful garden is hidden on the grounds of a spiritual organization founded by a pioneer yogi.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

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

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

Because there's no place like home.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.

One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

The oldest house in the capital of Silicon Valley.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

This 252 step staircase offers stunning views of San Jose.

It took years to decode its mysterious messages.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.