A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

A large sculptural artwork and garden in Escondido, California.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

Oldest building in California still in use.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.

A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.

A botanic garden full of trees twisted into fantastic shapes and positions.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

The founder of a utopian religious community based on the Golden Rule laid his son to rest on this grassy hill.