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

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

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

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.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.