One of the West Coast’s great structures—an office building that’s got wrought iron, Italian marble stairs and enough skylights to make it look part soaring cathedral and part Parisian alleyway. Read more.
Architect Richard Neutra built this then-revolutionary Modernist home for himself in 1932. Walking through it today is like touring Design Within Reach’s greatest hits. Read more.
The main house is one of the oldest in the Los Angeles. We’re fascinated not only by the colonial structure but also by the Chumash Indian hut that’s been erected on the Calabasas grounds. Read more.
The start of Cali’s oil boom is in this Santa Clarita field; this gusher started in 1876 and continued to produce oil for 114 yrs. Now it’s a ghost town named Mentryville, which includes hiking trails Read more.
This showstoppingly beautiful Malibu beach has earned its place with a storied past that includes stints as a whaling spot, a nudist beach and (on film) Tony Stark’s rad home. Read more.
An Italian immigrant construction worker spent 33 years of nights and weekends to build a mini city of 99-foot-high towers out of rebar concrete and 7 Up bottles. Outsider art was never the same. Read more.
Great architect Frank Lloyd Wright build this dramatic interpretation of a Mayan temple (concrete, leaded glass and a grand fireplace included) in 1921. Read more.
In the 1920s, this place led a nationwide craze called the Little Theatre Movement, in which brainy, challenging works were mounted. Read more.
An octagonal Mediterranean-style building sits at the end of this 928-foot pier that, in the 1940s, was a mecca for a new sports craze: surfing. Read more.
