This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

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

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

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

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

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

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

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

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

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

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.