Carved faces add a touch of magic to this island's impressive oak trees.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

This divisive system of turtle tunnels was built to save animals stranded after a highway split a lake in half.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

Dothan, Alabama has been invaded by scores of anthropomorphic peanuts.

An autonomous oak in Alabama.