An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A vaudeville performer mounted this hollowed-out redwood log onto the chassis of a truck, and toured the country spreading a message of conservation.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

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

A unique and poignant sidewalk mural commemorates the deaths of two striking workers.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

The world's first motel is now an administrative building for an apple farm.

For roadside fast food, pull over at the giant orange.

At 216 feet in length, this ornamental allium string is a feat to behold.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

At 130 years old and 126 feet tall, it is the largest known example of the rare Torrey pine tree.

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Sculpture garden and miniature golf course blend together in the oversized backyard of a Minnesota sculptor.

The first hospital in the New World.