This cliff-face port is considered a masterpiece of mining engineering.

Thailand's distressed elephants find peace at this Chiang Mai sanctuary.

This church looks more like a spaceship than a house of worship.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

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

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.