A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

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

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

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

A small medical museum with a recreated doctor's office.

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

A non-native grove of 241 redwoods in Southern California.

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

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

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

The Hopi-style structure was built by the man who discovered Desert Hot Springs' famous mineral water.

A museum dedicated to restoring vintage aircraft, located at a working airport.

The oldest home in Huntington Beach, the farmhouse is a monument to the region's pioneer past.

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

This giant spider sculpture made from the iconic car is one giant visual pun.

You don't have to be a diplomat to visit the so-called Camp David of the West.

Mexican food and folk art.

Nestled in Coachella Valley, this museum transports guests from the Mesozoic Era, to the land of Egyptian kings.

The so-called "Bridge of Thighs" in Palm Springs allows nudists to discreetly cross the road.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

A museum dedicated to the decorative arts from the 16th through 19th centuries.