With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

This miniature village stays behind in the Breuer Building, even as the museums around it come and go.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

The last standing piece of a famous Honolulu landmark.

This glass wall is gradually filling up with paper cranes, in honor of Hiroshima’s past and dedication to its future.

Hawaii’s largest cemetery rests inside an extinct volcano crater.

Boats and fish both find their way through this massive hydroelectric structure.

A blast from the past in central San Diego.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

A tribute to the disposable cups that were once manufactured here, this 68-foot-tall statue would be difficult to throw away.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

The home of one of California's most important horticulturalists wilts amidst a lovely park.

Enormous crabs, bioluminescent jellies, and other amazing creatures from the ocean’s depths—some of which are in an aquarium for the first time ever.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

A very tiny church, bisected by a now-dead oak tree and marooned in the middle of a shopping center parking lot.

This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

Meet 'Big Josh,' the 20-foot-tall muffler man.

A hidden courtyard houses early 20th-century plaster masterpieces.

You don't have to be a diplomat to visit the so-called Camp David of the West.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.