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

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

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

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

The Hopi-style structure was built by the man who discovered Desert Hot Springs' famous mineral water.

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

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

The sun acts as a key that only fits this giant keyhole twice a year.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

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

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

Because there's no place like home.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.