Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

Founded in 1873 to support the needs of the gold mines flourishing nearby, this is the last water-powered foundry in the United States.

The disdain for this dysfunctional dam is reflected in a giant pair of scissors painted on the concrete face.

Built to hold Gold Rush wealth, this building has withstood the test of time.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.

Mexican food and folk art.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.