A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

The Citrus Variety Collection at UC Riverside contains two trees of each of the 1,000+ varieties of citrus.

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

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

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

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

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

This mysterious petroglyph evokes the ancient swastika symbol but was later vandalized with the more troublesome Nazi one.

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

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

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

An artist's vision for connectivity spans seven continents and 16 countries.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

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

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

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

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

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.