The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, Brazil’s Snake Island has a frighteningly apt nickname.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

One of the only known surviving coconut palm trees in the entire state.

This mysterious petroglyph evokes the ancient swastika symbol but was later vandalized with the more troublesome Nazi one.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

Oldest building in California still in use.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

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.

This large collection of tiny things revels in the art of fine machinery well made.

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