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Yes, you can make art from an abandoned toilet.

Joshua Tree, California

The Noah Purifoy Desert Art Museum

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

Wildrose Charcoal Kilns. (matthigh/Flickr)

Death Valley, California

Wildrose Charcoal Kilns

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

Badwater Basin

Inyo County, California

Badwater Basin

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Tehachapi Wind Farm

Tehachapi, California

Tehachapi Wind Farm

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.

California City: The Unbuilt Suburb

California City, California

California City: The Unbuilt Suburb

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Artist's Drive

Inyo County, California

Artist's Drive

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

Harmony Borax Works

Furnace Creek, California

Harmony Borax Works

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

Iron Zoo
Permanently Closed

Coalinga, California

Iron Zoo

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

The "Soul Consoling Tower"

Inyo County, California

Manzanar National Historic Site

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

Erick Schat's BakkerĂż

Bishop, California

Erick Schat's BakkerĂż

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

The Top - Moro Rock at Sequoia National Park

Three Rivers, California

Moro Rock

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

The Castle Green

Pasadena, California

The Castle Green

Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.

1090 E. Washington Blvd., Built late 1911 for $2675

Pasadena, California

Bungalow Heaven

The American Home, Re-imagined.

Rocket Fizz
Permanently Closed

Pasadena, California

Rocket Fizz

Some of the most unusual (and in some cases, disgusting) flavors of soda imaginable.

Pops

Arcadia, Oklahoma

Pops

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes.

Guadalupe, California

Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes

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

An exterior shot of the Carson Mansion.

Eureka, California

The Carson Mansion

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

Elmer Long's Bottle Tree Ranch

Oro Grande, California

Elmer Long's Bottle Tree Ranch

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

Forest Lawn Cemetery

Glendale, California

Forest Lawn Cemetery

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

Angelus Temple

Los Angeles, California

Angelus Temple

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

Necromance
Permanently Closed

Los Angeles, California

Necromance

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

The Music Box Steps today.

Los Angeles, California

The Music Box Steps

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

Snow White Cottages

Los Angeles, California

Snow White Cottages

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

Vroman's Storefront

Pasadena, California

Vroman's Bookstore

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.

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