Los Angeles, California
Marciano Art Foundation
A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.
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Los Angeles, California
A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.
Los Angeles, California
A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.
Inyo County, California
Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.
Inyo County, California
"Only the devil could play golf here."
California
The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.
Escondido, California
A large sculptural artwork and garden in Escondido, California.
Bang Muang Mai, Thailand
This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.
San Diego, California
This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.
San Diego, California
Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.
San Bernardino, California
This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.
Mecca, California
These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.
Borrego Springs, California
A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.
San Juan Capistrano, California
Oldest building in California still in use.
San Diego County, California
The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
Borrego Springs, California
Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.
San Diego, California
One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.
San Diego, California
A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."
Bangkok, Thailand
A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.
Bangkok, Thailand
A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.
Williams, Oregon
A botanic garden full of trees twisted into fantastic shapes and positions.
Forks, Washington
One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.
La Push, Washington
Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.
Warrenton, Oregon
100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.
Raymond, Washington
The founder of a utopian religious community based on the Golden Rule laid his son to rest on this grassy hill.