A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

This large collection of tiny things revels in the art of fine machinery well made.

Take a leisurely ride on a 1906 cable car or a 1907 steam locomotive.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

This temple, built by an eccentric religious leader before his death, sits guarded and in ruins.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

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

The remains of a boarding school designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

This small shack near the entrance to Sequoia National Park has been in almost continuous operation for the last century.