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

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

Hand-crafted tributes to a stray cat named "Room 8" now cover this LA elementary school.

Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

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

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

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

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

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

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

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

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

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

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

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

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.