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A Cold War site complete with rusty structures, hiking trails, and beautiful views.

A 50-foot tile mural mosaic for the 100-year anniversary of the Statue of Liberty.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

Humboldt's human-powered sculptures race across land and sea for days on end in a wacky quest for dominance.

The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

The tiniest tiki room in San Diego.

A dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

An ode to the friendship between four Pacific Rim countries.

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

A beautiful memorial tells the story of a formerly enslaved woman whose kindness shaped a burgeoning city.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

If you dial the number in this abandoned office window "Sam Spade’s" secretary will ask you to leave a message.

In this roadside "community for the small," abandoned toys gain new lives.

A master of deception, Harry Houdini's greatest trick may have been living in two places at once.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

A small, peaceful sculpture garden with a grim memorial to a disaster that took place a few blocks away.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

The beloved dining spot stands at the cross-section of Hollywood and the Old West.