Inyo County, California
Devils Golf Course Landscape
"Only the devil could play golf here."
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Inyo County, California
"Only the devil could play golf here."
Inyo County, California
The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.
Los Angeles, California
The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.
Calipatria, California
A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.
San Jose, California
A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.
San Jose, California
A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.
Hillsborough, California
A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.
Oakland, California
Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.
San Jose, California
San Francisco Bay's ghost town.
Cabazon, California
The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.
Portland, Oregon
The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.
Mountain View, California
One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.
San Jose, California
The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.
San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
San Francisco, California
This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.
Los Angeles, California
America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.
Palos Verdes Estates, California
Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.
Rancho Palos Verdes, California
A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.
Los Angeles, California
Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.
Portland, Oregon
These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.
Portland, Oregon
This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.
Amado, Arizona
This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.
Green Valley, Arizona
After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.
San Francisco, California
The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.