The mountaintop wind turbine boasts a viewing deck — and a fair share of controversy.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

An operating lighthouse from the 1860s.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

The final resting place of one of Hollywood’s most prolific and talented actors is on the grounds of a California Mission.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

A priest with no formal artistic training used basic house paint to create gorgeous religious scenes inside this historic church.

A series of waterfalls and pools that flow through the 'Ohe'o Gulch and into the ocean.

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

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

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

The last Americana on Route 66.