The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

Population: 1.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

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

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

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

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.