Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

Known as the "Hobbit Houses," these storybook homes look like they're straight out of the Shire.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

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

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

This collection of hand fans doubles as a history of femininity.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

Hiding amid the largest camellia collection in the country lies a charming children's maze, donated by a secret admirer.

Inspiring Earthlings to Boldly Go.

A restored 1920s cascade stairway provides one of the best views of Oakland's Lake Merritt.

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

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.