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

This former shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

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.

This Old West hotel, the longest in continuous operation in the state of Arizona, is claimed to be haunted.

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

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

This huge dam across the Colorado River caused an armed standoff between two U.S. states.

A collection of old shoes in the middle of nowhere.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

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

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

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

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

A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.

This simple highway curve has become a comedic pilgrimage site.