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Featured Attractions
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....
Salvation Mountain
Niland, California
Religious folk art painted by Leonard Knight onto dirt ridge he calls Salvation Mountain.
Big Shoe
Bakersfield, California
Building shaped like a shoe where you can still get faulty footwear fixed.
Landmarks and Oddities List
Vacation Favorites
Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Alameda: Haunted Aircraft Carrier [tips]
- Alpine: Dinosaur Land [tips]
- Auburn: Great Statues
- Baker: World's Largest Thermometer
- Bakersfield: Building Shaped Like a Shoe
- Bear Valley: Famous One Log House
- Big Bear Lake: Time Bandits Pirate Ship [tips]
- Bishop: Ghost Town and Freak Lamb [tips]
- Boron: Borax Visitors Center [tips]
- Brookdale: Haunted Lodge [tips]
- Burbank: Alien Crash Landing [tips]
- Buena Park: Medieval Times
- 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: Virgin Mary Image in a Tree
- Colma: Emperor Norton's grave, Wyatt Earp's grave [tips]
- Culver City: Museum of Jurassic Technology [tips]
- Davis: Toad Hollow Tunnel
- Death Valley: Mysterious Moving Rocks
- Death Valley Junction: Amargosa Opera House [tips]
- El Cajon: Unarius Academy of Science
- Encinitas: Ship Houses [tips]
- Escondido: Lawrence Welk Museum
- Eureka: Gabriel's Garden
- Fairfield: Jelly Belly Factory Tour
- Felicity: Center of the World
- Fresno: Forestiere Underground Gardens [tips]
- Gilroy: Circus Trees [tips]
- Guerneville: Pee Wee Golf
- Helendale: Elmer's Place [tips]
- 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
- 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]
- Los Angeles: LA County Coroner's Gift Shop [tips]
- Los Angeles: Tess, 50 ft. Woman,
- Los Angeles: Simon Rodia Towers [tips]
- Mojave: Airplane Graveyard [tips]
- Morro Bay: Human Chess Board [tips]
- Myers Flat: Shrine Drive-Thru Tree
- Niland: Leonard Knight's Salvation Mountain
- Oakland: Children's Fairyland [tips]
- Pasadena: Bunny Museum [tips]
- Phillipsville: Chimney Tree
- Phillipsville: Hobbiton USA [tips]
- Piercy: World Famous Tree House
- Piercy: Confusion Hill
- Rio Vista: Foster's Big Horn
- Riverside: West Coast War Dog Memorial
- San Diego: A National Salute to Bob Hope and the Military
- San Diego: Unconditional Surrender
- San Francisco: Doggie Diner [tips]
- San Francisco: Musee Mecanique
- San Francisco: Wave Organ
- San Jose: Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum [tips]
- San Jose: Winchester Mystery House [tips]
- San Luis Obispo:Madonna Inn [tips]
- Santa Clarita: Star Trek Rocks [tips]
- Santa Cruz: Mystery Spot
- Santee: Museum of Creation and Earth History
- Simi Valley: Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village [tips]
- Simi Valley: Reagan Presidential Library
- Stockton: King of the Windmills
- Sunol: Bosco the Dog Mayor
- Turlock: Bulldozer Building
- Truckee: Emigrant Trail Museum and Statue
- 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
