Gnomes have their very own bonsai-landscaped settlement on a university campus.

This giant spider sculpture made from the iconic car is one giant visual pun.

The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

Subterranean house made out of a grain silo, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

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

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

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

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

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.