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On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.