A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

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

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.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

Made famous by cable TV, this oddball collection of antiques and collectibles is a cut above the rest.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

No one's quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.

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

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

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

Oldest building in California still in use.