Two groundbreaking brothers from Pasadena.

Southern California’s Theme Park Beginnings.

Former 1954 Del Mar Train Station now serves signature cocktails and delightful culinary treats, and still operates as a Metro stop.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

An airy would-be solution to a housing shortage.

Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

The modest childhood home where the baseball legend and Yankees star learned to hit from both sides of the plate.

The final resting place and once home of the Bandit Queen of the West.

A larger-than-life monument to the overlooked women who braved Western expansion and broke down societal barriers.

To honor his gardening wife, this yard artist turns bowling balls into playful, colorful sculptures.

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

This beacon for pre-radar pilots once guided Charles Lindbergh to a safe touchdown in Tulsa.

A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.

Three markers installed over the course of 140 years mark the point where Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma converge.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.