Known as the "Hobbit Houses," these storybook homes look like they're straight out of the Shire.

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

Making Ice Cream Hip Since 2008.

A British pub embodies the spirit of a California legend.

A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

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

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

A land of debatable treasure.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

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.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

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

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

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."