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

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Fans have made a utility pole near where the 90s musician was shot into an ersatz memorial.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

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

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

Built from one couple’s vast personal collection, this free museum showcases a century’s worth of state-sponsored agitprop.

A striking eight-story-high obelisk perched on a coastal California cliff.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

One of the world's smallest city parks is only 12 by 20 feet.

A carnivorous plant paradise in a serpentine bog.

This place claims to be North America’s first vegan convenience store.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

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

One of the largest Buddhist communities in the West sits on the site of an old hospital.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

Lombard Street may be more famous, but this is the real “crookedest street in the world.”

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.