“Watts Towers sticks out in my mind because I spent such a long time thinking about it afterwards.” He was transfixed by the shells from the moment he stepped inside the sculpture’s wavy walls.

LOS ANGELES — The Watts Towers rose up against a clear blue sky as James Janisse unlocked the 10-foot-high gate that surrounds the soaring outdoor sculpture.

Watts towers did not begin with a tower at all. It began with a ship, or an utterly immobile rendition of one. Three thousand miles from the ocean that carried him to the United States from Italy ...

The Watts Towers rose up against a clear blue sky as James Janisse unlocked the 10-foot-high gate that surrounds the soaring outdoor sculpture. "Behold the work of the man," said Janisse, a tour gu… ...

The Watts Towers are considered 'at risk' -- in desperate need of restoration. We take a closer look at the art and science of saving the iconic sculptures.

The Watts Towers gained a bit of national recognition this week, but not for a happy reason: The outdoor sculpture composed of salvaged steel, seashells, tile, glass, wire mesh, and concrete by ...

Watts Towers became a state park in 1978 but only after surviving a planned demolition by the same Los Angeles ... and a sculpture shaped like a well that was occasionally used for baptisms on the ...

Simon Rodia’s story will be told with a showing of the 2006 documentary “I Built the Tower” at 3 p.m. Sunday, July 30, at the Warner Grand Theatre.