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

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

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

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

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

This hands-on math museum believes in turning concepts into constructs.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

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.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.