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Giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
San Francisco, CA
A functioning storefront for imaginary pirates sells eye patches, rope and absurd seafaring supplies while serving as the public entrance to a nonprofit writing center.
Albany, CA
A former construction-debris landfill became a waterfront landscape of improvised sculptures, murals and paths, with public art changing constantly.
Amboy, CA
A nearly symmetrical cinder cone rises beside Route 66 above a broad black lava field and can be reached by a desert hiking trail.
Big Pine, CA
Trails pass some of the oldest known individual trees on Earth, twisted bristlecone pines growing in stark white dolomite high above Owens Valley.
Joshua Tree, CA
This compact arts compound combines galleries, outdoor installations and eccentric desert artwork beside the World Famous Crochet Museum.
Death Valley, CA
Oxidized minerals color a volcanic hillside in greens, pinks, yellows and purples along the one-way Artists Drive.
San Francisco, CA
A purpose-built dark theater surrounds listeners with sound moving through more than a hundred speakers, creating a concert experience centered on spatial audio rather than sight.
Death Valley, CA
A roadside boardwalk reaches salt flats at the lowest land elevation in North America, 282 feet below sea level.
Burbank, CA
Taxidermy, medical ephemera, strange antiques and curiosities fill this long-running Burbank oddities shop.
Volcano, CA
Guided tours descend into a National Natural Landmark known for dense displays of delicate helictite crystals that twist in seemingly impossible directions.
Los Angeles, CA
A surviving marionette theater stages hand-operated puppet productions using a collection built over decades by puppeteer Bob Baker.
Mineral, CA
One of the largest hot-water lakes in the United States sits in Lassen's Warner Valley, surrounded by steaming ground and hydrothermal features.
Los Angeles, CA
The 1893 interior rises around a light-filled atrium of open cage elevators, ornate iron stairs and balconies famous from films including Blade Runner.
San Luis Obispo, CA
Layers of chewed gum cover both walls of a narrow downtown alley, creating an intentionally gross collaborative landmark that has persisted for decades.
Mineral, CA
A boardwalk enters Lassen's largest hydrothermal basin, where boiling pools, steam vents and acidic ground create an unusually hostile-looking landscape.
Cabazon, CA
Dinny the Dinosaur and Mr. Rex are enormous concrete roadside dinosaurs built to attract freeway travelers and later expanded into a full dinosaur attraction.
Desert Hot Springs, CA
Cabot Yerxa built this sprawling Hopi-inspired pueblo largely from reclaimed materials, filling it with narrow rooms, handmade details and desert history.
Yermo, CA
A tilted-house attraction inside Calico uses sloping construction and forced perspective to create classic gravity-defying illusions.
Victorville, CA
A volunteer museum fills a former restaurant with Mother Road signs, vehicles, motel artifacts and oversized photo props.
San Francisco, CA
A giant camera obscura projects a live rotating image of Ocean Beach and the surrounding coast inside a small seaside building shaped like a camera.
Eureka, CA
One of America's most elaborate Queen Anne houses rises over Eureka's waterfront. It is now a private club, so OddWay should treat it strictly as an exterior-view stop.
Tulelake, CA
A long, branching lava-tube system offers a more technical caving experience than the monument's easy caves and requires route-finding, lights and current closure checks.
San Francisco, CA
A former park gardener transformed the grounds with hand-carved wooden figures, faces and totems tucked through an otherwise ordinary neighborhood park.
Leggett, CA
A living coast redwood has a vehicle-sized tunnel cut through its trunk, allowing ordinary cars to drive through one of California's surviving classic tree attractions.
