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Concrete TV

Albany, California

Albany Bulb

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

East Bay Vivarium

Berkeley, California

East Bay Vivarium

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

Aquatic Park Tombstones

San Francisco, California

Aquatic Park Tombstones

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Musée Mécanique

San Francisco, California

Musée Mécanique

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

The Wave Organ, San Francisco Bay

San Francisco, California

The Wave Organ

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The cemetery in 2014

San Francisco, California

Presidio Pet Cemetery

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

"Bliss."

Sonoma, California

Location of the Microsoft Windows XP Default Wallpaper

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

Rolling hills surround the site.

Shandon, California

James Dean Memorial Junction

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

The giant metal roadrunner watches traffic from the middle of the rotary.

La Quinta, California

Big Metal Roadrunner

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

SS Palo Alto, the cement ship at Seacliff State Beach

Aptos, California

SS Palo Alto

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

Echo Park Time Travel Mart.

Los Angeles, California

The Echo Park Time Travel Mart

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Hollywood Forever

Los Angeles, California

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Mae West's falsies.
Permanently Closed

Los Angeles, California

Dearly Departed Museum

A macabre tour of Hollywood’s deadly history.

Image from the Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Museum website.

Los Angeles, California

Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Museum

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

Museum of Death

Los Angeles, California

The Museum of Death

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

The Capitol Records building.

Los Angeles, California

Capitol Records Building Morse Code

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

Carcass Beach

Calipatria, California

Carcass Beach

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

Obsidian butte.

Calipatria, California

Obsidian Butte on the Salton Sea

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

Calipatria Flagpole

Calipatria, California

Calipatria Flagpole

Erroneously called the world's tallest flagpole, this landmark is devoted to "good neighborliness."

Salvation Mountain

Calipatria, California

Salvation Mountain

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Entrance to East Jesus

Calipatria, California

Slab City

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

"Nothing ever happens," East Jesus

Niland, California

East Jesus

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

Pretty nice for an infrastructure accident!

Mecca, California

Salton Sea

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Bombay Beach, California. (Wikimedia Commons)

Bombay Beach, California

Bombay Beach

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

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