A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

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

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

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

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

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

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

Factory that once supported an entire company town of 350.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.