An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

A wild west scene starring life-sized wooden statues hides in the trees behind Pierce College.

One man's prolific, decade-long quest to turn trash into artistic treasure.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

A large sculptural artwork and garden in Escondido, California.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

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

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

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

An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.