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

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

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

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

A British pub embodies the spirit of a California legend.

A California city claims to be the home of a fast-food classic.

A 1950s Googie burger stand is now a Los Angeles landmark.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

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

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

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

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.