California Attractions and Oddities
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- Adelanto: Miraculous Giant Healing Buddhist Statue
- Adin: Garik the Brave, 9/11 and Nam Rider
- Agoura Hills: Statue of Chief White Eagle
- Alameda: Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet
- Alameda: Lucky JuJu Pinball Museum
- Albany: The Bulb - Flotsam Art Utopia
- Alpine: Dinosaur Land Remains
- Altadena: Haunted Gravity Hill
- Amboy: Roy's Motel & Cafe
- Amboy: Shoe Tree
- Angel's Camp: Mark Twain Frog Cairn
- Apple Valley: Concrete Dinosaurs
- Apple Valley: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Memorial
- Aptos: 1989 Earthquake Epicenter
- Aptos: S.S. Palo Alto Concrete Ship
- Arcadia: Windmill-themed Denny's
- Arnold: The Big Stump
- Atwater: Castle Air Museum
- Auburn: Gold Miner - Ken Fox Statue
- Auburn: Ken Fox's Great Statues of Auburn
- Auburn: The Coolie - Ken Fox Statue
- Avenue of the Giants: Big Tree Drive-Thru
- Bakersfield: Bakersfield Arch
- Bakersfield: Big Shoe Repair - Shoe-shaped Building
- Bakersfield: Muffler Man - The Indian Warrior
- Bakersfield: Music Legends in Bronze
- Baker: Alien Fresh Jerky Stand
- Baker: World's Largest Thermometer
- Barstow: Route 66 Mother Road Museum
- Barstow: Vehicles from Hell
- Barstow: World's First Del Taco
- Bellflower: Big Doughnut in Bagel Disguise
- Belmont: Flag, Hat Made of Human Hair
- Benicia: Ghost Fleet of Retired Ships
- Berkeley: Drake's Plate Of Brass: Former Fraud On Display
- Berkeley: Fish Shaped House
- Berkeley: Miniature Railroad WWII monument
- Berkeley: Protesters - Berkeley's Big People Statues
- Big Bear Lake: "The Time Bandit" Movie Pirate Ship
- Big Bear Lake: Shoe Tree Unloved by the Elderly
- Big Sur: Claptrap Bus Dining - Big Sur River Inn
- Bishop: Ghost Town and Freak Lamb
- Bodega: Hitchcock's The Birds Shot Here
- Bodfish: Silver City Ghost Town
- Bodie: Bodie State Historic Park - Ghost Town
- Boonville: Where People Speak Boontling
- Boron: Borax Visitor Center
- Borrego Springs: Dinosaur Statues
- Borrego Springs: Liar Peg Leg Smith Monument
- Bridgeport: Bucking Horse Weather Vane, Silver Oxen
- Brisbane: Fire Hydrant Graveyard
- Brookdale: Haunted Brookdale Lodge
- Buellton: Ostrich Land
- Buena Park: Freaks - Ripley's Believe It Or Not
- Buena Park: Knott's Berry Farm - Joe still in jail
- Buena Park: Medieval Times
- Buena Park: Pirate's Dinner Adventure
- Burbank: Alien Crash Landing
- Burbank: F-104D-15-LO On a Stick
- Burlingame: Little Man with the Hammer
- Burlingame: Museum Of Pez Memorabilia
- Burlingame: World's Largest It's It
- Cabazon: Cabazon Dinosaurs
- Calipatria: Flag Pole at Sea Level
- Calistoga: Old Faithful Geyser of California
- Calistoga: Petrified Forest
- Cambria: Nitt Witt Ridge
- Cardiff-by-the-Sea: Dorky Dude Surfer Statue
- Carlsbad: Full Size Windmill
- Carlsbad: Legoland
- Carmel-by-the-Sea: Roy Rogers Collection
- Carson: Muffler Man
- Caruthers: Fighter Plane Crash Gas Station
- Castroville: Giant Artichoke
- Castroville: Weird Bar-B-Que Host
- Cathedral City: Sonny Bono's Grave
- Chico: World's Largest Yo-Yo and National Yo-Yo Museum
- Chiriaco Summit: General Patton Memorial Museum
- Cholame: James Dean Memorial
- Chowchilla: Mammoth Orange Stand
- City of Industry: Fake TV McDonald's
- Clovis: Ken Curtis Memorial - As seen on Gunsmoke
- Coalinga: Iron Zoo - Oil Pump Art
- Coalinga: Restored 1934 Richfield Gas Station
- Colma: Circus Showfolks of America Memorial
- Colma: Emperor Norton Grave
- Colma: Mystery Tombstone
- Colma: Virgin Mary Image in a Tree
- Colma: Wyatt Earp and Levi Strauss Headstones
- Commerce: Poker Walk of Fame, Poker Hall of Fame
- Coronado: Haunted Hotel
- Corona: Lemon Capital of the World
- Costa Mesa: A&W family - Papa Burger
- Costa Mesa: Alibaba Motel
- Costa Mesa: Not a Big Boy - A Root Beer Man
- Covina Hills: Forest Lawn Cemetery
- Crescent City: Big Motorized Scissors
- Culver City: Cube Tree
- Culver City: Mo'Better Meaty Meat
- Culver City: Museum of Jurassic Technology
- Davis: Computer Science Museum - UC Davis
- Davis: Dancing Ceramic Pigs
- Davis: Toad Hollow - Tunnel for Toad Traffic
- Death Valley Junction: Amargosa Opera House
- Death Valley National Park: Mysterious Moving Rocks
- Death Valley: Scotty's Castle
- Desert Hot Springs: Big Hand-Carved Indian Head
- Dixon: Giant Orange
- Dixon: Vestigial "Milk Farm" sign
- Downey: World's Oldest Mcdonald's
- Dunsmuir: Sleep in a Caboose
- Earlimart: Black Ghost Town
- East Los Angeles: Giant Aluminum Can Man
- East Los Angeles: Muffler Man - Tony
- Edwards AFB: Sound Barrier Broken Here Statue
- El Cajon: Unarius Academy of Science
- El Cerrito: Playland Not At The Beach
- El Monte: Muffler Man
- El Monte: Statue of Liberty Replica
- Emeryville: Doggie Diner Heads
- Emeryville: Junk Sculpture of Star Wars C3PO
- Encinitas: Boat Houses
- Encinitas: Topiary Cadillac
- Escondido: Large Snake Statue
- Escondido: Lawrence Welk Museum
- Escondido: Muffler Man - Joor Man
- Escondido: Queen Califia's Magical Circle
- Essex: Shoe Tree
- Eureka: Folk Art: Gabriel's Garden
- Eureka: Fort Humboldt - Ulysses S. Grant Posted Here with Bottle
- Fairfield: Jelly Belly Factory Tour
- Felicity: Official Center of the World
- Felton: Bigfoot Discovery Museum
- Felton: Roaring Camp Railroads - Thomas the Tank Engine
- Ferndale: Kinetic Museum
- Fiddletown: World's Largest Fiddle
- Fontana: Giant Orange Stand
- Foresthill: Roadside Grave of Old Joe - Murdered Stagecoach Horse
- Forestville: Muffler Man - Bunyan
- Forestville: World's Smallest Church
- Fort Bragg: Tattoo Museum
- Fort Irwin: Absolutely Nothing Next 22 Miles
- Fort Irwin: Hi Jolly Exhibit and Human Leg Bone
- Fort Irwin: Military Boulders
- Fortuna: Mountainside Artist - Vague Recollections
- Fremont: Plane-Wing Antenna Thing
- Fremont: Silent Movie Walk of Fame
- Fresno: Boy with the Leaking Boot Fountain
- Fresno: David of Sassoon
- Fresno: Forestiere Underground Gardens
- Fresno: Golden Horse Statue
- Fresno: Historic Sanitary Landfill
- Fresno: Orchard Dragon
- Fullerton: Fallen David
- Fullerton: Parking Lot Shipwreck - A Remnant
- Garberville: Famous One Log House
- Gardena: Big Doughnut, Donut King II
- Garlock: Hand-Dug Tunnel To Nowhere
- Geyserville: Isis Oasis Temple and Retreat
- Gilroy: Circus Trees at Bonfante Gardens
- Gilroy: Garlic Capital of the World
- Glendale: Big Gold Mall Statue of D-Day Dead
- Glendale: Leslie Brand Family Cemetery and Pyramid
- Glendale: Miss American Green Cross Statue
- Glendora: Rubel Pharm and Castle
- Grass Valley: Alta Sierra Biblical Gardens
- Greenbrae: Giant Nude Woman
- Grenada: Rusty Cow
- Guerneville: Pee Wee Golf
- Half Moon Bay: Dinosaurs of Spanish Town
- Half Moon Bay: Moss Beach Distillery - Blue Ghost Lady
- Hallelujah Junction: Shoe Tree
- Happy Camp: Surreal Bigfoot Sculpture
- Hat Creek: Muffler Man
- Hayward: Muffler Man
- Hayward: Zucchini Capital of California
- Helendale: Elmer's Place - Bottle Cacti
- Helm: Smiley Face Storage Tank
- Hesperia: Banana Museum
- Hillsborough: Flintstone House
- Hillsborough: Goofy Father Junipero Serra Statue
- Hollister: Casa de Fruta
- Hollywood: Hollywood Forever Cemetery
- Hollywood: Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Hollywood: Hollywood Wax Museum
- Hollywood: Jayne Mansfield's Cenotaph
- Hollywood: Johnny Ramone Grave
- Hollywood: Kermit the Frog Statue
- Hollywood: Laserium CyberTheater
- Hollywood: Museum of Death
- Hollywood: Site of Manson Murders, Sharon Tate's House
- Hollywood: The Alex Star
- Huntington Beach: Dachshund Races
- Independence: Coyote-Tooth Dentures
- Independence: Manzanar WWII Japanese Internment Camp
- Indio: Shields Date Garden in the Date Capital of the World
- Inglewood: Big Doughnut, Randy's Donuts
- Inglewood: Green Horse
- Irwindale: Car Parts Man
- Jackson: Big Rooster
- Jacumba: Desert View Tower
- Jacumba: Gravity Hill
- Jamestown: Tiny Jail
- Joshua Tree: Institute of Mentalphysics
- Joshua Tree: Murtle The Turtle
- Joshua Tree: Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum
- Juniper Flats - Romoland: Mushroom House
- Kingsburg: Swedish Coffee Pot Water Tower
- Klamath: Forest Cafe - Underwater Dining
- Klamath: Memorial To Captain Courageous - Hero Floating Bull
- Klamath: Tour-Thru Tree
- Klamath: Trees Of Mystery
- Knights Ferry: Longest Covered Bridge West of the Mississippi
- La Jolla: La Jolla Gravity Hill
- La Puente: Big Doughnut, the Donut Hole
- Lakehead: Lake Shasta Caverns
- Lancaster: Club Ed Movie Set
- Lancaster: Musical Road - Singing Road
- Landers: Giant Rock
- Landers: The Integratron
- Lathrop: Crashed UFO at the Lathrop Tower Mart
- Lee Vining: Upside Down House
- Leggett: Chandelier Drive-Thru Tree
- Leggett: Chandelier Tree
- Lemon Grove: World's Largest Lemon
- Lemoncove: Bull on a Trailer
- Lemoore: Giant Transformer Robot
- Lindsay: World's Largest Olive
- Little River: Van Damme Pygmy Forest
- Littlerock: Charlie Brown Farms - Dinosaurs, Meat on a Stick
- Livermore: Longest Continuously Burning Lightbulb
- Livermore: Muffler Man
- Loma Linda: Fetus and Skeleton Collection
- Loma Mar: 200 Plastic Flamingo House
- Lomita: Hitler's Beer Steins
- Long Barn: Shoe Tree
- Long Beach: Big Doughnut
- Long Beach: Queen Mary - Haunted Encounters Tour
- Long Beach: World's Skinniest House
- Los Angeles: 20-Ft. Tall Rocky And Bullwinkle Statue
- Los Angeles: 50-Foot-Tall Woman with Visible Organs
- Los Angeles: Big Chair in Los Angeles
- Los Angeles: Big Doughnut - Dale's Donuts
- Los Angeles: Big Doughnut - Kindle's Giant Donut
- Los Angeles: Big Hat From Former Brown Derby
- Los Angeles: Bootmobiles
- Los Angeles: Bronson Caves - Batman's Bat Cave
- Los Angeles: Buried Face-Down Above Marilyn Monroe
- Los Angeles: Cake Museum
- Los Angeles: Cat Face Drain Covers
- Los Angeles: Chicken Boy - Muffler Man
- Los Angeles: Fake Forest Cafeteria
- Los Angeles: Fountain of Concrete Bedpans
- Los Angeles: Home for Wayward Streetlights
- Los Angeles: James Dean, Rebel Without A Cause Memorial
- Los Angeles: Jim Morrison Apartment Tour
- Los Angeles: LA Coroners Office Gift Shop
- Los Angeles: La Brea Tar Pits
- Los Angeles: Michael Jackson’s Last Residence
- Los Angeles: Michael Jackson’s Walk of Fame Star
- Los Angeles: Muffler Man - Sergio
- Los Angeles: Museum of Neon Art (MONA)
- Los Angeles: Ocean Liner-shaped Building
- Los Angeles: Old LA Zoo Ruins - Anchorman Filmed Here
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Gone But Not Forgotten
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November 26, 2009
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