This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

A remote desert lookout offers unparalleled views of the California badlands for those who brave the trek.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

This unique sanctuary invites you to interact with the beautiful birds.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

This hidden fire lookout offers spectacular views of Sequoia National Park.

Sojourn to the past at this residence teeming with 1950s memorabilia.

This diner's a kitschy dreamland for anyone whose heart is stuck in the 1980s.

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

A unique market that brings together various goods and cultures.

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

A porcelain company's former dumping ground, completely covered in pieces of collectible ceramics.

These structures were inspired by both Native American shelters as well as, strangely, an ice cream shop.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world's most famous paranormal investigators.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

This enormous abandoned factory is now a makeshift graffiti gallery.

The world's largest indoor go-kart racetrack is hiding in Connecticut.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

An ancient glacial pothole waterfall in the heart of the Green Mountains.