This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

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

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

Amazing meticulous gardens of personal wood carvings, Hydrangea, Canna, and many other flowers.

This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.

The sun acts as a key that only fits this giant keyhole twice a year.

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

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