US Road Trip '17

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.

Erroneously called the world's tallest flagpole, this landmark is devoted to "good neighborliness."

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.