The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

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

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

A Cold War site complete with rusty structures, hiking trails, and beautiful views.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

The sun acts as a key that only fits this giant keyhole twice a year.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

Because there's no place like home.