Chiriaco Summit, California
General Patton Memorial Museum
A museum dedicated to the life and career of the gifted but controversial general.
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Chiriaco Summit, California
A museum dedicated to the life and career of the gifted but controversial general.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Fans of vintage Vegas, kitsch, and toy pony-based gambling now flock to a casino called The D.
Las Vegas, Nevada
The so-called "Father of Las Vegas" had the city's first telephone installed in his office in 1907.
Las Vegas, Nevada
The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.
Las Vegas, Nevada
“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.
Amargosa Valley, Nevada
A cosmic pit stop just beyond the notorious Area 51.
Beatty, Nevada
Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.
Beatty, Nevada
The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.
Beatty, Nevada
A land of debatable treasure.
Beatty, Nevada
Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.
Amargosa Valley, Nevada
This enormous fiberglass cow near Death Valley National Park once graced a casino roof in Las Vegas.
Furnace Creek, California
This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.
Twentynine Palms, California
Artist Jack Pierson made this surreal sculpture in honor of Wonder Valley, a countercultural community on edge of civilization.
Joshua Tree, California
Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."
Twentynine Palms, California
In this roadside "community for the small," abandoned toys gain new lives.
Joshua Tree, California
Meet 'Big Josh,' the 20-foot-tall muffler man.
Los Angeles, California
World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.
Los Angeles, California
Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.
Los Angeles, California
Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.
Culver City, California
A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.
Culver City, California
A modern day curiosity cabinet.
Los Angeles, California
Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.