Places curiouser 54cc2706 Wants to Go

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

The last of its kind in the country.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

A 19th-century California philanthropist is entombed beneath the telescope he funded.

Traces of General Patton’s Mojave Desert training camps for the North Africa campaign.

A desert community’s history is captured by this collection of artifacts and memorabilia.

A museum dedicated to the life and career of the gifted but controversial general.

This distinctive blue and white jet fighter is a symbol of the area’s relationship with aviation.

A monument is dedicated to the thousands of people who pick and harvest our nation's food.

A statue of one of Mexico's founding fathers, located... not in Mexico

One of two Southern California statues celebrating “The Duke,” this one towers over a Beverly Hills sidewalk.

An archive and museum with a mind-boggling collection of Shakespeare-related objects.

This massive redwood tree has a drive-thru tunnel carved out of its trunk.

This museum honors the farming past of the “Salad Bowl of the World.”

Large metal sculptures spread throughout an open landscape.

This historic home has survived wars, drought, and financial woes to become a California landmark.

A remote field of nearly pristine sand dunes in the heart of the Mojave Desert.

The only mine for rare earth elements in the United States has been intermittently active since the 1950s.

This wooden statue commemorates a man who spent nearly 40 years waving hello to the people of Laguna Beach.

This California town keeps a graveyard of its retired, decorated fire hydrants.