This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

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

Antiques by the Bay.

Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.