This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

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

Iconic Los Angeles residence famous for its 19 statues of Michelangelo's David.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.