Los Angeles, California
Griffith Observatory’s Tesla Coil
High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.
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Sunol-Midtown, California
Sunol Water Temple
A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.
Sunol, California
Bosco the Dog Mayor
The black lab that was voted mayor of a California town is forever remembered by a life-size statue.
Gilroy, California
Gilroy Gardens
Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.
San Jose, California
The Winchester Mystery House
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Stockton, California
Stockton Diamond Railroad Crossing
In a forgotten Central Valley industrial park lies the busiest railroad junction in California.
Stockton, California
Wat Dhammararam
Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.
Yosemite National Park, California
Indian Village of the Ahwahnee
A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.
Yosemite National Park, California
The Ahwahnee Hotel
The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.
Lake Los Angeles, California
Lake Los Angeles
A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.
El Mirage, California
Aviation Warehouse
Where decommissioned airplanes and helicopters go to become part of Hollywood.
Tombstone, Arizona
The Bird Cage Theater
An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.
Lucerne Valley, California
Jack O'Landia
This strangely vacant Western amusement seems to be an empty tribute to residents of Lucerne Valley.
Apple Valley, California
Dinosaur Mini Golf Ruins
Built in the early 70s, the ruins of dinosaurs are all that remains of a man’s dream to build a free dinosaur themed mini golf course
Tombstone, Arizona
Jewish Pioneers Memorial
The Jewish section of the famous Boothill Graveyard was abandoned for nearly 100 years.
Tombstone, Arizona
Boothill Graveyard
A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.
Las Cruces, New Mexico
World's Largest Chile Pepper Sculpture
This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Recycled Roadrunner Statue
The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.
El Paso, Texas
Casa de Azucar
The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.
El Paso, Texas
Magoffin Home
El Paso's only historic house museum is an adobe mansion built by a prominent multicultural borderlands family.
El Paso, Texas
Chamizal National Memorial
This site honors the end of a 100-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico—all started by a river's shifting course.
El Paso, Texas
John Wesley Hardin's Grave
A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.
Fort Stockton, Texas
Paisano Pete
The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.
Mount Desert, Maine
Bubble Rock
A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.
