Los Angeles, California
Ballerina Clown
A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.
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Los Angeles, California
A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.
Los Angeles, California
Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.
Berkeley, California
An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.
San Diego, California
This San Diego museum is dedicated to preserving women’s historic achievements.
Palo Alto, California
This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.
Mill Valley, California
Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.
Mission Viejo, California
This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.
McCloud, California
This lesser known Hearst estate is a fairytale village built from the stolen bones of historic European buildings.
San Francisco, California
Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.
Los Angeles, California
Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.
San Marino, California
Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.
San Juan Capistrano, California
Oldest building in California still in use.
Tecopa, California
This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.
Baker, California
Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.
Desert Hot Springs, California
The Hopi-style structure was built by the man who discovered Desert Hot Springs' famous mineral water.
San Bernardino County, California
This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.
Oakland, California
A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.
San Francisco, California
A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.
Los Angeles, California
An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.
San Francisco, California
A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.
South Lake Tahoe, California
One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.
West Hollywood, California
Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.
San Diego, California
Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.
San Francisco, California
One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.