The freeway that never was.

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

Of all the origin stories for weed's secret code, this one likely has the goods.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

A classically trained chef makes beloved burritos inside a gas station.

George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.

This nonsensical smiling boat shuttles passengers between two places they could've easily walked between.

This remarkably simple jail went over a century without an escape.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

This graffiti-covered bridge is the quintessential vision of a place for disillusioned youth to escape the complexities of burgeoning adulthood.

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

Spend a day hanging out with domesticated Russian foxes.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

With statues of Nelson Mandela and Harvey Milk this monument has been called the Mount Rushmore of California.

If you dial the number in this abandoned office window "Sam Spade’s" secretary will ask you to leave a message.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

A bright California graveyard with a decidedly dark side.

The beloved dining spot stands at the cross-section of Hollywood and the Old West.

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.