Calipatria, California
Salvation Mountain
A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.
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Calipatria, California
A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.
Bombay Beach, California
Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.
Mecca, California
World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.
Phoenix, Arizona
The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.
Twentynine Palms, California
In California, colorful roadside signs remind us all that love transcends borders.
Oracle, Arizona
A reproduction of earth's many biomes.
Tucson, Arizona
In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.
Phoenix, Arizona
This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.
Phoenix, Arizona
A museum and tribute to a brave profession.
Phoenix, Arizona
The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.
Phoenix, Arizona
In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.
Tucson, Arizona
Religious statues built because of one man's bargain with God fill this peaceful sculpture garden.
Winterhaven, California
Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.
Yucca Valley, California
A meditative space out of a fantasy story.
Joshua Tree, California
An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.
Lake Havasu City, Arizona
This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.
Solvang, California
Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.
Los Angeles, California
Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.
Los Angeles, California
A black and white mural stands out from its psychedelic surroundings.
Los Angeles, California
In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.
Los Angeles, California
An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.
Los Angeles, California
A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.
Los Angeles, California
After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.
Laguna Beach, California
This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.