A modern day curiosity cabinet.

A 9 year-old boy’s elaborate cardboard arcade in his father’s used auto parts store.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

This mysterious petroglyph evokes the ancient swastika symbol but was later vandalized with the more troublesome Nazi one.

Lemon Grove, California is known for its giant lemon...and mummified bodies.

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

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

A monument to the frontier doctor who came up with the idea of delineating highways with a painted line.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

A mysterious and endangered parasitic herb from the California desert.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.