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First Original McDonald's Museum
San Bernardino, California
Juan Pollo restaurant chain founder bought this property in a foreclosure sale and turned it into a McDonald's Museum.
Houdini Monument
Los Angeles, California
Large bronze head of famous magician Harry Houdini scowls from a pillar of rocks in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.
Icons of Darkness
Los Angeles, California
Claims world's largest private collection of screen-used special effects, props, and costumes from sci-fi, horror, and fantasy films.
Tail o' the Pup
West Hollywood, California
Venerable hot dog-shaped hot dog stand opened in 1946, was restored and re-opened in 2022.
Sights for Oddball Excursions
Queen Califia's Magical Circle Garden
Escondido, California
Colorful fantasy sculpture world of tiles and serpents. Massive work by sculptor and painter Niki de Saint Phalle.
Official Center of the World
Felicity, California
Mayor Istel built his town smack over the Center of the World, now site of a pyramid, church and world history in granite.
In the Box Tour: Battles in Fake Iraq
Fort Irwin, California
Fake Iraq and Afghan villages built for Army training employ actor-citizens and insurgents. Special attack tours.
Trees of Mystery: Giant Bunyan and Babe
Klamath, California
Giant statues guard the entrance to classic Trees of Mystery, full of redwoods, corkscrew mutants and arboreal anomalies.
Chandelier Drive-Thru Tree
Leggett, California
Drive-thru trees. The horror! The Wonder! Here's an Avenue of the Giants favorite.
Simon Rodia's Watts Towers
Los Angeles, California
An oft analyzed and revered monumental junk art construction of tall spires by outsider artist Sabato Simon "Sam" Rodia, built from 1922 to 1954.
Salvation Mountain
Niland, California
The late outsider artist Leonard Knight painted huge, divinely inspired visions on a desert dirt ridge he called Salvation Mountain.
Ken Fox's Great Statues of Auburn
Auburn, California
Concrete colossi built by Auburn dentist-sculptor Ken Fox.
Beasts of Borrego Springs
Borrego Springs, California
Desert sculpture gallery of dinosaurs, prehistoric mammals, and at least one sea monster, scattered over three square miles.
Claude Bell's Dinosaurs
Cabazon, California
Over-photographed desert dinosaurs, immortalized in Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Built by Claude Bell, who ran the Wheel Inn on I-10.
Museum of Jurassic Technology
Culver City, California
A collection both cryptic and illuminating, dedicated to raising public appreciation of the Lower Jurassic.
Unarius Academy of Science
El Cajon, California
Headquarters of the Unarians, firm believers that 33 city-ships of the galactic Federation would arrive on Earth in 2001 (they didn't).
Jelly Belly Factory Tour and Museum
Fairfield, California
The factory that makes the jelly beans that a President once made famous.
Bigfoot Discovery Museum
Felton, California
The hairy biped, spotted between surfing beaches and Silicon Valley.
Pee Wee Golf
Guerneville, California
The 36-hole course opened in 1948 may be the birthplace of Odd Golf Sculpture.
Big Mike the Muffler Man
Hayward, California
1960s vintage fiberglass Bunyan statue spent career in front of Hayward businesses before settling at a plastics fabrication business.
Museum of Death
Hollywood, California
Grisly romp through funeral customs, celebrity murders, freak animals, and art of the condemned.
Point Reyes Lighthouse: The Fog
Inverness, California
300+ steps down to 1870 lighthouse at the cold, windy, foggy western reaches of Point Reyes National Seashore.
Drive-Thru Donut: The Donut Hole
La Puente, California
A doughnut shop sandwiched between two giant doughnuts is the very definition of the drive-thru attraction.
Nike Missile Site SF-88L
Mill Valley, California
NPS conducts tours through remarkably well-preserved Cold War facility, built to fire supersonic missiles at approaching Soviet bombers.
Battery Townsley
Mill Valley, California
World War II era coast artillery bunker restored and open once a month for tours. Big guns, nuclear pressure tests, former teen burner hangout.
Steinbeck's Spirit of Monterey Wax Museum
Monterey, California
The history of Monterey unfolds in wax: prostitutes, Indians, a bull and a bear in a bloody death struggle, and John Steinbeck. Closed in 2023.
Shrine Drive-Thru Tree
Myers Flat, California
One of California's original drive-thru tree attractions is along the Avenue of the Giants.
Columbia, Challenger, and Criswell in Valhalla
North Hollywood, California
Portal of the Folded Wing, space shuttle memorial, and remains of the Amazing Criswell.
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Offbeat Landmarks and Oddities
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- Adelanto: Miraculous Giant Healing Buddhist Statue [tips]
- Aguanga: Metal Sculptures of Ricardo Breceda
- Alameda: Carrier USS Hornet, Prints of Moon Men
- Alpine: Dead Dolly Lane [tips]
- Altadena: Bunny Museum
- Amboy: Roy's Cafe Motel: Famous Sign [tips]
- Antioch: Statue of the Cannery Lady [tips]
- Apple Valley: 24-Foot-Tall Trigger, Roy Rogers' Horse [tips]
- Aptos: Egg Machine with Robot Chickens [tips]
- Atwater: Castle Air Museum: Parking Lot Jets [tips]
- Auburn: Ken Fox's Great Statues of Auburn
- Auburn: The Coolie - Ken Fox Statue
- Avalon: Statue of Old Ben, Hungry Sea Lion [tips]
- Baker: World's Tallest Thermometer
- Baker: Alien Fresh Jerky [tips]
- Bakersfield: Big Shoe Repair - Shoe-shaped Building
- Bakersfield: Muffler Man: Indian Warrior [tips]
- Bakersfield: Merle Haggard's Boxcar Home, Black Gold Oil Exhibit [tips]
- Baldwin Park: Replica of the First In-N-Out Burger
- Barstow: Route 66 Mother Road Museum [tips]
- Barstow: Vehicles from Hell [tips]
- Barstow: Giant Fire Helmet
- Bellflower: Big Doughnut in Bagel Disguise [tips]
- Bellflower: TV's Emergency! Firetrucks [tips]
- Big Bear Lake: Time Bandits Movie Pirate Ship [tips]
- Bishop: Ghost Town and Freak Lamb [tips]
- Bodie: Bodie State Historic Park - Ghost Town [tips]
- Bombay Beach: Bombay Beach: Odd Art [tips]
- Bonita: Glarfs: Folk Art Dinosaurs [tips]
- Boonville: Where People Speak Boontling [tips]
- Boron: Borax Visitor Center
- Boron: Twenty Mule Team Museum
- Borrego Springs: Beasts of Borrego Springs
- Buellton: Mendenhall's Museum of Gas Pumps and Petroliana [tips]
- Buena Park: Independence Hall Replica [tips]
- Burbank: Batman Statue [tips]
- Burlingame: Museum of Pez Memorabilia
- Cabazon: Claude Bell's Dinosaurs
- Calistoga: Old Faithful Geyser of California
- Cambria: Nitt Witt Ridge
- Campbell: Delta Queen Car Wash
- Cardiff-by-the-Sea: Cardiff Kook Surfer Statue [tips]
- Carlsbad: Legoland [tips]
- Carlsbad: Craftsmanship Museum: Tiny Machines
- Cassel: Large Junk Art Sculptures [tips]
- Castroville: Giant Artichoke
- Chiriaco Summit: General Patton Memorial Museum
- Cholame: James Dean Memorial [tips]
- Coalinga: Restored 1934 Richfield Gas Station [tips]
- Coalinga: Prehistoric Snail, Earthquake, Town History
- Colma: Emperor Norton Grave [tips]
- Colma: Circus Showfolks of America Memorial
- Coloma: Towering Grave of California's Gold Discoverer
- Compton: Big Doughnut - Dale's Donuts [tips]
- Costa Mesa: 25-Foot-High Doughnut [tips]
- Costa Mesa: Hitler's Car [tips]
- Cotati: Accordion Master of Cotati
- Crockett: Crockett History: Sugar, Sturgeon, Switchboard
- Culver City: Museum of Jurassic Technology
- Culver City: Holy Cross Cemetery - Graves of the Stars [tips]
- Culver City: Cold War: The Wende Museum
- Culver City: Al Jolson's Flashy Tomb
- Davis: Toad Hollow - Tunnel for Toad Traffic
- Davis: Bookhead
- Death Valley Junction: Amargosa Opera House [tips]
- Death Valley National Park: Uhehebe Crater: Volcano!
- Desert Hot Springs: Cabot's Old Indian Pueblo Museum
- Downey: World's Oldest Operating McDonald's [tips]
- Downieville: California's Only Public Gallows
- East Los Angeles: Giant Aluminum Can Man [tips]
- El Cajon: Unarius Academy of Science
- El Cajon: Giant Mary and Toddler Jesus
- El Monte: Statue of Liberty Replica [tips]
- Encinitas: Surfing Madonna
- Encinitas: Neptune's Portal
- Escondido: Lawrence Welk Statue and Museum
- Escondido: Muffler Man - Joor Man
- Escondido: Queen Califia's Magical Circle Garden
- Escondido: Deer Park Winery and Auto Museum [tips]
- Fairfax: Museum of Bicycling [tips]
- Fairfield: Jelly Belly Factory Tour and Museum
- Felicity: Official Center of the World
- Felton: Bigfoot Discovery Museum
- Felton: Redwood Cross-Section of Time
- Fish Camp: California Tunnel Tree [tips]
- Folsom: Folsom Prison Museum
- Forestville: Muffler Man - Bunyan [tips]
- Forestville: World's Smallest Church
- Fort Bragg: Triangle Tattoo Museum [tips]
- Fort Irwin: Painted Rocks - Military Boulders [tips]
- Fort Irwin: Hi Jolly Exhibit and Human Leg Bone
- Fort Irwin: In the Box Tour: Battles in Fake Iraq
- Fortuna: Chapman's Gem and Mineral Museum
- Fremont: Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum [tips]
- Fresno: Forestiere Underground Gardens [tips]
- Fresno: Soul Consoling Japanese Internment Tower [tips]
- Garberville: Famous One Log House [tips]
- Garden Grove: Christ Cathedral (formerly Crystal Cathedral) [tips]
- Gardena: Big Doughnut, Donut King II [tips]
- Geyserville: Isis Oasis Temple and Retreat
- Geyserville: Coppola Winery Movie Museum
- Gilroy: Circus Trees at Gilroy Gardens
- Glen Ellen: Jack London's Grave, Wolf House Ruins
- Glendale: Big Gold Mall Statue of D-Day Dead
- Glendale: Museum of Neon Art [tips]
- Glendale: Stained Glass Last Supper [tips]
- Glendora: Rubel Castle
- Guadalupe: DeMille's 10 Commandments Buried Here [tips]
- Guerneville: Pee Wee Golf
- Half Moon Bay: Pumpkin Farm, Labyrinth, Gladiator Battles [tips]
- Half Moon Bay: English Pub With Double Decker Bus, Giant Pumpkin
- Happy Camp: Surreal Bigfoot Sculpture [tips]
- Hat Creek: Big Roy, Muffler Man [tips]
- Hawthorne: SpaceX Dragon Rocket Monument
- Hayward: Big Mike the Muffler Man
- Hayward: Muffler Man: Happy Halfwit Hollywood
- Hayward: Wagon Ho Pioneer Giant
- Hayward: Muffler Man Cowboy - Big Don
- Hayward: Muffler Man - Paul Bunyan No. 2
- Hayward: Doggie Diner Heads [tips]
- Hayward: Firefighter Giant - Muffler Man [tips]
- Healdsburg: 26-Foot-Tall Coyote
- Healdsburg: Lord Snort: Giant Boar of Junk [tips]
- Hollywood: Hollywood Forever Cemetery
- Hollywood: Museum of Death
- Hollywood: RockWalk - Handprints Of Rockers
- Hollywood: Johnny Ramone Grave [tips]
- Hollywood: Atlas Missile Grave Marker
- Hollywood: Hollywood Museum
- Hollywood: Hollywood Sign [tips]
- Huntington Beach: International Surfing Museum: World's Largest Surfboard
- Huntington Beach: Statue Of Old Sarge - Dog Hero of World War II [tips]
- Indio: Shields Date Garden: Date Capital of the World [tips]
- Inglewood: Big Doughnut, Randy's Donuts
- Inverness: Point Reyes Lighthouse: The Fog
- Irwindale: Tour the Sriracha Hot Sauce Factory
- Jacumba: Desert View Tower
- Joshua Tree: Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum [tips]
- Joshua Tree: Metal Dinosaurs [tips]
- Joshua Tree: Big Josh: Cowboy Muffler Man [tips]
- Julian: Eagle Gold Mine Tour
- Keene: Grave of Cesar Chavez [tips]
- Kettleman City: Bravo Land
- Klamath: Trees of Mystery: Giant Bunyan and Babe
- Klamath: Tour-Thru Tree
- Klamath: Radar Station B-71: Farmhouse Disguise
- La Jolla: Gift Shop Built Over a Sea Cave [tips]
- La Jolla: House Teetering on Edge of Roof
- La Jolla: The Scripps Turd [tips]
- La Jolla: Giant Snake Mosaic Walkway
- La Jolla: Teddy Bear Made of Boulders [tips]
- La Puente: Drive-Thru Donut: The Donut Hole
- Lafayette: Hill Of Crosses - Iraq War Dead Soldiers
- Lake Balboa: Valley Relics Museum [tips]
- Lake Hughes: Quail Run Ostrich Ranch [tips]
- Lancaster: The Musical Road [tips]
- Landers: The Integratron [tips]
- Landers: Giant Rock [tips]
- Lathrop: Crashed UFO at Power Mart
- Lee Vining: Upside Down House [tips]
- Leggett: Chandelier Drive-Thru Tree
- Lemon Grove: World's Largest Lemon
- Lemoore: Giant Transformer Robot [tips]
- Lemoore: Creepy Farm People Dummies [tips]
- Livermore: Longest Continuously Burning Light Bulb
- Livermore: Muffler Man - Rodeo Season [tips]
- Lodi: A&W Burger Family [tips]
- Lone Pine: Nightmare Rock [tips]
- Lone Pine: Movie Road [tips]
- Lone Pine: Lone Pine Film History Museum [tips]
- Long Beach: Queen Mary
- Long Beach: Giant Lincoln Penny
- Los Angeles: 50-Foot-Long Woman with Visible Organs
- Los Angeles: Icons of Darkness
- Los Angeles: Academy Museum of Motion Pictures [tips]
- Los Angeles: Simon Rodia's Watts Towers
- Los Angeles: Tony the Muffler Man [tips]
- Los Angeles: Bronson Caves - Batman's Bat Cave [tips]
- Los Angeles: Muffler Man - Sergio [tips]
- Los Angeles: Chicken Boy: Muffler Man
- Los Angeles: La Brea Tar Pits
- Los Angeles: Giant Italian Chair [tips]
- Los Angeles: Urban Light - 202 Lit Lampposts
- Los Angeles: Mount Wilson Observatory [tips]
- Los Angeles: Cosmos-Themed Encounter Lounge [tips]
- Los Angeles: The L. Ron Hubbard Life Exhibition [tips]
- Los Angeles: Statue of Businessman With Head Stuck In Building [tips]
- Los Angeles: Petersen Auto Museum [tips]
- Los Angeles: Buried Face-Down Above Marilyn Monroe [tips]
- Los Angeles: Garden of Oz [tips]
- Los Angeles: Angels Flight: World's Shortest Railway
- Los Angeles: Forest Lawn Cemetery: Most Patriotic Place in LA
- Los Angeles: Space Shuttle Endeavor [tips]
- Los Angeles: LAPD Museum
- Los Angeles: Pierce Brothers Westwood Memorial Park [tips]
- Los Angeles: Big Bronze Bruce Lee
- Los Angeles: Funko Hollywood
- Los Angeles: Phantasma Gloria at Randyland LA [tips]
- Los Angeles: Diorama Museum of Bhagavad-gita [tips]
- Malibu: Salsa Muffler Man
- Marysville: Museum of the Forgotten Warriors [tips]
- Mentone: Muffler Man - Paul Bunyan [tips]
- Mill Valley: Nike Missile Site SF-88L
- Mill Valley: Redwood Cross-Section of Time
- Mill Valley: Battery Townsley
- Monterey: Steinbeck's Spirit of Monterey Wax Museum
- Mountain View: Computer History Museum [tips]
- Myers Flat: Shrine Drive-Thru Tree
- Napa: Portal to Hell: Monticello Dam Drain [tips]
- Newhall: Horse Drawn Hearse Under Glass [tips]
- Newport Beach: Bunnyhenge [tips]
- Niland: Salvation Mountain
- Niland: Slab City [tips]
- Niland: East Jesus [tips]
- Norco: Pumpkin Rock [tips]
- North Fork: Stand on the Exact Center of California [tips]
- North Hollywood: Television Hall of Fame
- North Hollywood: Portal of the Folded Wings, Space Shuttle Memorial
- North Hollywood: Columbia, Challenger, and Criswell in Valhalla
- Novato: Olompali: Miwoks, Chosen Family, Grateful Dead
- Oakland: Champions For Humanity: Mount Rushmore of California
- Ocotillo: Coyote's Flying Saucer Retrievals and Repairs
- Olancha: Junk Art Sculptures - Give/Take [tips]
- Oro Grande: Elmer Long's Bottle Tree Ranch
- Oroville: Bolt's Antique Tool Museum
- Pacific Grove: Sandy The Gray Whale [tips]
- Pacific Grove: P.G. Butterfly House
- Pacific Grove: Tree Carved Octopus Attacking Ship
- Pacifica: Sam's Castle [tips]
- Palm Springs: Car Plunge into Water
- Palm Springs: Giant Marilyn Monroe [tips]
- Palm Springs: RoboLights Sculpture Garden [tips]
- Palmdale: Blackbird Park - Spy Plane Hometown [tips]
- Palo Alto: Body of Urban Myth [tips]
- Palo Alto: Naked Running Car Statue [tips]
- Palo Alto: Statue of Nikola Tesla [tips]
- Pasadena: Giant Fork
- Pearsonville: Uniroyal Gal [tips]
- Petaluma: Rancho Obi-Wan [tips]
- Petaluma: Military Antiques and Penry Museum
- Phillipsville: Chimney Tree, Old Hobbiton USA
- Piercy: Confusion Hill
- Placerville: Hanged Dummy at Hangman's Tree [tips]
- Point Reyes Station: 1906 Earthquake Trail
- Ranchita: Rancheti the Yeti [tips]
- Redcrest: The Eternal Tree House
- Redwood City: Pulgas Water Temple
- Rialto: Wigwam Village Motel No. 7
- Richmond: Rosie the Riveter Visitor Center
- Rio Vista: Foster's Bighorn - 300 Heads
- Riverside: Vietnam War Dog Memorial
- Riverside: Sanchez's Beer Bottle Chapel, Folk Art [tips]
- Riverside: Hand-Made Dinosaurs [tips]
- Sacramento: Alien Tourist Trailer
- Sacramento: One-Log Kevin Costner
- Sacramento: Pancake Circus: Clown-Themed [tips]
- Salinas: Giant Roadside Art of John Cerney [tips]
- San Anselmo: Indiana Jones and Yoda Statues
- San Bernardino: First Original McDonald's Museum
- San Carlos: Hiller Aviation Museum [tips]
- San Diego: Air and Space Museum: Nazi Flying Wing, Apollo 9 Capsule [tips]
- San Diego: Unconditional Surrender Statue
- San Diego: San Diego Police Museum [tips]
- San Diego: Our Lady of Shoes
- San Diego: A National Salute to Bob Hope and the Military
- San Diego: Presidents Museum in a High School [tips]
- San Diego: Model Railroad: World's Largest? [tips]
- San Diego: Louie Mattar's Fabulous $75,000 Cadillac
- San Francisco: Doggie Diner Heads
- San Francisco: Wave Organ
- San Francisco: Musee Mecanique
- San Francisco: Cupid's Span [tips]
- San Francisco: St. Francis Made of Melted Guns
- San Francisco: Tonga Room
- San Francisco: Paxton Gate - Taxidermy Art
- San Francisco: Crookedest Street in the World
- San Francisco: Famous Lounging Sea Lions
- San Francisco: Sutro Baths Ruins and Cave
- San Francisco: USS Pampanito Submarine Museum
- San Francisco: Albino Alligator
- San Francisco: Urge - Robot Mimics You
- San Francisco: Comic Rockstars Toilet Seat Museum [tips]
- San Francisco: Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Odditorium
- San Francisco: Magic Bus
- San Francisco: Cement Slides [tips]
- San Francisco: Real Crookedest Street in San Francisco
- San Francisco: Beach Chalet: WPA Frescos, Undersea Stairs
- San Francisco: 826 Valencia: Pirate Supply Store [tips]
- San Francisco: Ceramic Congregation: Internet Archive
- San Francisco: Madame Tussauds
- San Francisco: Japanese Tea Garden [tips]
- San Francisco: Urban Putt
- San Gabriel: Monster Park [tips]
- San Jose: Winchester Mystery House
- San Jose: Babe the Muffler Man
- San Jose: Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum [tips]
- San Jose: Olympic Black Power Statue
- San Leandro: 55-Foot-Tall Nude Woman [tips]
- San Luis Obispo: Bubble Gum Alley [tips]
- San Luis Obispo: Madonna Inn [tips]
- San Pedro: Battleship and Barbershop of Presidents
- San Pedro: SS Poseidon Model [tips]
- San Quentin: San Quentin Prison Gift Shop (and Museum) [tips]
- San Rafael: Museum of International Propaganda
- San Simeon: Hearst's Xanadu [tips]
- San Simeon: Watch the Elephant Seals [tips]
- Santa Clara: 32-Foot-Tall Steel Mary [tips]
- Santa Clara: Intel Museum
- Santa Clarita: Star Trek Gorn Battle Rocks - Vasquez Rocks [tips]
- Santa Cruz: Santa Cruz Mystery Spot
- Santa Cruz: Blue Whale Skeleton [tips]
- Santa Fe Springs: Oxman's Surplus Museum
- Santa Monica: Mushroom Cloud Made of Chains
- Santa Rosa: Menacing Goblins [tips]
- Santee: Creation and Earth History Museum
- Sebastopol: Demented But Lovable Dog Statue [tips]
- Sebastopol: Amiot's Junk Art Characters [tips]
- Sequoia National Park: Tunnel Log: Drive Thru a Fallen Sequoia
- Sequoia National Park: General Sherman: World's Largest (not Tallest) Tree
- Sequoia National Park: General Grant - World's 3rd Largest Tree [tips]
- Sequoia National Park: Home in a Log [tips]
- Simi Valley: Ronald Reagan Museum and Library
- Simi Valley: Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village
- Simi Valley: World's Largest Skateboard Collection [tips]
- Solvang: Ostrichland USA [tips]
- South El Monte: American Military Museum: Tanks [tips]
- South Lake Tahoe: Magic Carpet Mini Golf
- Stockton: Giant Buddha Statues [tips]
- Sunol: Bosco the Dog Mayor
- Sutter Creek: Muffler Man [tips]
- Sylmar: Nethercutt Collection: Rare Cars And Music Machines [tips]
- Taft: The Great Mouse Invasion - West Kern Oil Museum
- Taft: Giant Oil Worker Monument [tips]
- Temecula: Ronald Reagan Can-Do Statue [tips]
- Torrance: JFK Toilet Bowl Memorial
- Traver: Watch Cheese Made, Climb 7-Story Tree House [tips]
- Trona: Trona Pinnacles
- Truckee: Donner Party Monument: Cannibals!
- Tulelake: Lava Beds National Monument [tips]
- Turlock: Office Shaped Like Bulldozer
- Tustin: Two Giant Airship Hangars [tips]
- Twentynine Palms: End of the World Sign [tips]
- Twentynine Palms: Outdoor Collection of Vintage Neon Signs [tips]
- Ukiah: World's Largest Redwood Tree Service Station
- Ukiah: City of Ten Thousand Buddhas
- Valle Vista: Nightly Bat Swarm
- Vallecito: Moaning Cavern
- Vallejo: Mare Island Naval Missile Park
- Vallejo: Mare Island Naval Shipyard Museum
- Valley Village: Metropolitan Pit Stop: Niche Minicar Museum [tips]
- Van Nuys: Muffler Man - Kevin
- Venice: Clownerina - Giant Clown in Tutu
- Venice: Beach Bordello, Gargoyle-Encrusted
- Venice: Mosaic Tile House [tips]
- Ventura: Backyard Muffler Man [tips]
- Victorville: California Route 66 Museum - Hulaville Model [tips]
- Vina: Medieval Monastery [tips]
- Viola: Muffler Man Paul Bunyan [tips]
- Walnut Creek: Hand of Peace [tips]
- Weed: Living Memorial Sculpture Garden [tips]
- Weott: Charles Kellogg's Travel Log
- West Hollywood: Tail o' the Pup
- West Hollywood: Rocky and Bullwinkle
- Westminster: Vietnamese Boat People Memorial
- Westport: Westport Whale [tips]
- Willits: Muffler Man: Cowboy Willy [tips]
- Willow Creek: Bigfoot Capital: Museum and Statue
- Willow Creek: Community Building Bigfoot Mural
- Winterhaven: Remains of the Imperial Dunes Plank Road
- Winterhaven: Imperial Valley Sand Dunes [tips]
- Woodland Hills: Old Trapper's Lodge Statues
- Yermo: Calico Ghost Town [tips]
- Yermo: Peggy Sue's Diner and Diner-Saur Park [tips]
- Yermo: Liberty Sculpture Park: Crazy Horse, Tiananmen Square
- Yorba Linda: Richard Nixon Museum and Birthplace
- Yucca Valley: Desert Christ Park
- Yucca Valley: Sky Village Swap Meet Folk Art [tips]