Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

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

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

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

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

A macabre tour of Hollywood’s deadly history.

An expansive and intricately restored mansion remains from over a century ago--and so do its ghosts.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

The artwork that Italians felt California didn't deserve.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

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

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

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