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Columbia, Challenger, and Criswell in Valhalla
North Hollywood, California
Valhalla Memorial Park contains the Portal of the Folded Wing, a space shuttle replica, and the earthly remains of the Amazing Criswell.
Magic Bus
San Francisco, California
Trippy tour of the Summer of Love using an old bus and 21st century tech.
Borax Visitor Center
Boron, California
Museum sits atop mountain of tailings, looks down into pit. Learn about borates, mules, and Ronald Reagan.
Quack-Founded Town With Last Name in the Alphabet
Zzyzx, California
Bogus medicine evangelist built a desert oasis resort -- "the last name in health" -- before he was kicked out by the feds.
Queen Califia's Magical Circle Garden
Escondido, California
Unique public sculpture environment -- a walled knot of arty phantasma and childhood fever dream.
Museum of Jurassic Technology
Culver City, California
A collection both cryptic and illuminating, dedicated to raising public appreciation of the Lower Jurassic.
Museum of Death
Hollywood, California
Grisly romp through funeral customs, celebrity murders, freak animals, and art of the condemned.
Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia
Burlingame, California
Pellet-Regurgitating Pez Dispensers -- they're all here, along with the World's Largest.
Bob Hope Memorial
San Diego, California
Bob Hope statue entertains the troops' statues with a never-ending joke.
Bulldozer Building
Turlock, California
People rent and sell bulldozers inside this building shaped like a bulldozer.
Bosco the Dog Mayor
Sunol, California
The town of Sunol pays tribute to their leader with varying degrees of reverence.
Old Faithful Geyser of California
Calistoga, California
A naturally reliable tourist attraction, with occasional bladder problems.
Toad Hollow - Tunnel for Toad Traffic
Davis, California
The city of Davis built special tunnels so toads wouldn't be squished crossing the highway. A toad bedroom community soon arose....
Big Shoe
Bakersfield, California
Building shaped like a shoe where you can still get faulty footwear fixed.
Trunkations
Preserving Our American Right To Walk Through A Tree
Fish Camp - Before there were even automobiles, there were holes hacked through the center of Californias giant sequoias. One of the first was the California Tunnel Tree, now part of the Mariposa Grove in Yosemite National Park. Full story
Videos from the Road
Road trip clips, owner rants, art and junk in California Videos.
Offbeat Landmarks and Oddities
Choice field reports and tips. Also see: Complete list of California attractions.
- Alameda: Haunted Aircraft Carrier [tips]
- Angel's Camp: Mark Twain Frog Cairn
- Aptos: S.S. Palo Alto Concrete Ship
- Auburn: Great Statues
- Auburn: Great Statues
- Baker: World's Largest Thermometer
- Bakersfield: Building Shaped Like a Shoe
- Bakersfield: Cancer Survivors Gauntlet
- Barstow: Giant Fire Helmet
- Bear Valley: Famous One Log House
- Berkeley: Protesters - Berkeley's Big People Statues
- Big Bear Lake: Time Bandits Pirate Ship [tips]
- Bishop: Ghost Town and Freak Lamb [tips]
- Boron: Borax Visitors Center
- Boron: Saxon Aerospace Museum - The Right Stuff
- Burbank: Alien Crash Landing [tips]
- Burlingame: Pez Museum
- Cabazon: Claude Bell's Dinosaurs
- Calistoga: Old Faithful Geyser of California
- Calistoga: Petrified Forest [tips]
- Cambria: Nitt Witt Ridge
- Castroville: Artichoke Capital, Giant Artichoke
- Chiriaco Summit: Gen. Patton Museum [tips]
- Cholame: James Dean Death Site [tips]
- Colma: Emperor Norton's grave, Wyatt Earp's grave | Mystery Tombstone | Sailors' Union of the Pacific Monument | Virgin Mary Image in a Tree
- Culver City: Museum of Jurassic Technology
- Davis: Toad Hollow Tunnel
- Death Valley: Mysterious Moving Rocks
- Death Valley Junction: Amargosa Opera House [tips]
- El Cajon: Unarius Academy of Science
- El Cerrito Playland Not at the Beach
- Encinitas: Ship Houses [tips]
- Escondido: Lawrence Welk Museum
- Escondido: Queen Califia's Magical Circle Garden
- Eureka: Gabriel's Garden
- Fairfield: Jelly Belly Factory Tour
- Felicity: Center of the World
- Folsom: Folsom Prison Museum
- Fort Irwin: Battles in Fake Iraq
- Fresno: Forestiere Underground Gardens [tips]
- Gilroy: Circus Trees [tips]
- Geyserville: Coppola Winery Movie Museum
- Guerneville: Pee Wee Golf
- Helendale: Elmer's Place [tips]
- Hillsborough: Goofy Father Junipero Serra Statue
- Hollywood: Hollywood Wax Museum
- Hollywood: Hollywood Forever Cemetery
- Hollywood: Museum of Death
- Indio: Date Capital of the World [tips]
- Inglewood: Big Doughnut
- Jacumba: Desert View Tower
- Kingsburg: Swedish town, Coffee Pot water tower [tips]
- Klamath: Tour-Thru Tree, Trees of Mystery
- Lafayette: Hill of Crosses
- La Jolla: Gravity Hill [tips]
- La Puente: Donut Hole
- Lathrop: Crashed UFO at the Tower Mart
- Leggett: Chandelier Drive-Thru Tree
- Lemon Grove: World's Largest Lemon
- Lindsay: Large Olive [tips]
- Livermore: Longest Continually Burning Lightbulb [tips]
- Locke: Largest Rural Chinatown in US
- Los Angeles: LA County Coroner's Gift Shop [tips]
- Los Angeles: Tess, 50 ft. Woman
- Los Angeles: Simon Rodia Towers [tips]
- Merced: Muffler Man and Ag Museum Frontier Town
- Mojave: Airplane Graveyard [tips]
- Morro Bay: Human Chess Board [tips]
- Myers Flat: Shrine Drive-Thru Tree
- North Hollywood: Columbia, Challenger, and Criswell in Valhalla
- Oakland: Children's Fairyland [tips]
- Oakland: Firestorm House and Disasters To Come
- Pasadena: Bunny Museum [tips]
- Phillipsville: Chimney Tree
- Piercy: World Famous Tree House
- Piercy: Confusion Hill
- Redwood City: Pulgas Water Temple
- Rio Vista: Foster's Big Horn
- Riverside: West Coast War Dog Memorial
- Sacramento: One-Log Kevin Costner
- Sacramento: Relic Contraption from the USS Maine
- San Diego: A National Salute to Bob Hope and the Military
- San Diego: Unconditional Surrender
- San Francisco: Camera Obscura - Giant Pinhole Camera
- San Francisco: Cathedral Made of Guns
- San Francisco: Doggie Diner [tips]
- San Francisco: Goddess of Democracy
- San Francisco: Magic Bus
- San Francisco: Musee Mecanique
- San Francisco: Paxton Gate - Taxidermied Mice
- San Francisco: Raygun Gothic Rocketship
- San Francisco: Shaking Man Sculpture
- San Francisco: St. Francis Made of Melted Guns
- San Francisco: Wave Organ
- San Jose: Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum [tips]
- San Jose: Winchester Mystery House [tips]
- San Luis Obispo: Madonna Inn [tips]
- San Mateo: Wind Organ and Sonic Sculptures
- Santa Clarita: Star Trek Rocks [tips]
- Santa Cruz: Dead Surfers Memorial
- Santa Cruz: Mystery Spot
- Santa Cruz: Surfing Monument
- Santee: Museum of Creation and Earth History
- Sausalito: NIke Missile Site SF88L
- Simi Valley: Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village [tips]
- Sunol: Bosco the Dog Mayor
- Sunol: Sunol Water Temple
- Turlock: Bulldozer Building
- Truckee: Donner Party Monument - Cannibals!
- Victorville: Brownie, Railroad Dog [tips]
- Willow Creek: Bigfoot sights [tips]
- Woodland: Hays Truck Museum [tips]
- Woodland Hills: The Old Trapper's Lodge
- Yorba Linda: Nixon Library and Birthplace
- Yucca Valley: Desert Christ Park
- Zzyzx: Quack-Founded Town With Last Name in the Alphabet
