This simple highway curve has become a comedic pilgrimage site.

You don't have to be a diplomat to visit the so-called Camp David of the West.

A 250 million-year-old rock formation has earned a rather unique nickname.

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

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

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

This well-traveled chess park offers scenic views of the pacific and a colorful, eclectic clientele.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

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.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

Sit at the "Disney table,” where Walt and his team of "imagineers" once dined on the regular.

The mall's looks were inspired by the cowboy extras who used to meet up—and cause real trouble—at this Hollywood hub.

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

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

This giant spider sculpture made from the iconic car is one giant visual pun.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

At this airport "microcinema," you can catch a film before you catch a flight.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

A monument to the frontier doctor who came up with the idea of delineating highways with a painted line.

A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.

A statue based on a tragic Japanese nursery rhyme, commemorating San Diego's sisterhood with Yokohama.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.