Successful artist residence program has filled this ranch with dozens of sculptures over the years.

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

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

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

The largest Star Wars collection in the world is its own galaxy of collectibles.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

The Hopi-style structure was built by the man who discovered Desert Hot Springs' famous mineral water.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

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

A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

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

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.