Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near California

While in California, you might enjoy a visit to:

A desert front yard chock full of hundreds of cactus/folk art sculptures, made from welded pipe and bottles.
~83 miles from Thousand Palms.

Memorial to gold prospector and inveterate liar. It's really there, out in the desert. Honest.
~36 miles from Thousand Palms.

Evolution Theory is a bunch of baseless hooey according to this slick museum, which presents the "Intelligent Design" Creationist perspective.
~75 miles from Thousand Palms.

Overphotographed dinosaurs in the desert. Built by Claude Bell, who ran the Wheel Inn on I-10; currently owned by folks who don't buy the Theory of Evolution.
~23 miles from Thousand Palms.

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