This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

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

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

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

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

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

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.