Places curiouser 54cc2706 Wants to Go

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

Spend a day hanging out with domesticated Russian foxes.

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

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

Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.

A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.

The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

A rare surviving example of a pre-WWII Japanese garden, restored after years of neglect.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

Hand-crafted tributes to a stray cat named "Room 8" now cover this LA elementary school.

An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.

Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

Made famous by cable TV, this oddball collection of antiques and collectibles is a cut above the rest.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

The tiniest tiki room in San Diego.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.