The Hopi-style structure was built by the man who discovered Desert Hot Springs' famous mineral water.

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

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

The sun acts as a key that only fits this giant keyhole twice a year.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

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

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.