Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

The shattered remnants of a meteor that struck Santa Fe more than a billion years ago.

The 7,000-year-old calcium carbonate formation creates a magnificent natural bridge.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

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.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.