Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

Catch a glimpse of the elusive Peninsular bighorns right off of the desert freeway.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

This park is home to well over 100 handmade birdhouses.

Oldest building in California still in use.

A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

The world's largest collection of garden gnomes lives among the trees and wildflowers on this woodland reserve.

Gnomes have their very own bonsai-landscaped settlement on a university campus.

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

This small, unassuming street is now a canvas for color and creativity.

The massive, incredibly rare instrument is over 11 feet tall with a range so deep it goes lower than humans can hear.

Originally conceived as part of a proposed Arizona State Capitol building in the 1950s, this structure built in 2004 stands as a monument to the architect's legacy.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of Navajo Nation.

One of the most extensive and well-preserved collections of dinosaur footprints in North America.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.