A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

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

This Chinese art gallery is hidden inside the Sunrider Corporation headquarters.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

This whimsical public art installation is a unique homage to Liverpool's industrial heritage.

Enigmatic bug-like sculptures mystify drivers along a Swedish highway.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

Albuquerque found the perfect use for tumbleweeds at Christmastime.

A sculpture of a flying hawk made from colorful car doors.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

This museum honors the first Spanish land grant in California which is still in the hands of the original owner's family.

One of the best collections of antique printing machinery in the world.

Commonly acknowledged as the only public monument to the Devil himself.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."