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

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

Spend a day hanging out with domesticated Russian foxes.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

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

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

In this roadside "community for the small," abandoned toys gain new lives.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

This famous Nevada gold mine, once a hotbed of Wild West shenanigans, is now open for tours.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

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

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

Fans of vintage Vegas, kitsch, and toy pony-based gambling now flock to a casino called The D.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.