Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

A monument to the frontier doctor who came up with the idea of delineating highways with a painted line.

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

Windswept and remote, this island was once the home of a rare mammoth and today is home to a rare tree.

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

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

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

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

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

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

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.

The Mighty Wurlitzer organ continues to belt out the tunes at downtown El Segundo's historic home for silent and classic movies.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.