In the country around Buttonwillow, California, a marker commemorates a revealing moment in the story of a water colony from the fictional Kcymaerxthaere that sought independence.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

A 1920s home transformed into an immersive art experience, where every room is a portal to another realm.

Amazing meticulous gardens of personal wood carvings, Hydrangea, Canna, and many other flowers.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

A porcelain company's former dumping ground, completely covered in pieces of collectible ceramics.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in North America is built of concrete designed to last 1,000 years.

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.