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- Los Angeles's Programmatic Architecture
- Richard's Lunchbox (formerly Aerodogs)
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- Museum of Creation and Earth History
- Museum of Pez
- World Famous Crochet Museum
- Fry's Electronics Store
- Alice in Wonderland Fry's
- Fry's Electronics Alien Invasion
- Train Themed Fry's
- Two Giant Slot Machines
- Irregular Residences
- Boat Houses
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- The Spite House
- The Witch's House
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- Forgotten Locales
- Arne's Royal Hawaiian Motel
- Bagdad Cafe
- Bayshore Roundhouse
- Cayucos Shipwreck
- Coalinga Iron Zoo
- Devil's Slide Bunker
- Doggie Diner
- Foothill Boulevard Mile Marker
- Frontier Village Birdhouses
- Hopeton Graveyard
- Jenny Rose Restaurant
- Jungleland
- Keeler
- Motel Inn
- Old LA Zoo
- Old Trapper's Lodge
- Painted Cave
- Pearsonville, Hubcap Capital of the World
- Rinconada Mine
- Route 66 Needles
- Roy's Motel and Cafe
- Scary Dairy
- Slabs of US 40 and Lincoln Highways
- Stairway to Nowhere
- Zzyzx
- Kilns
- Hauntings
- Castle Air Museum
- Flora Sommerton
- Ghosts of Lake Elsinore
- Hollywood Sign
- Las Cruces Adobe
- Lone Pine Ghosts
- Mission San Antonio de Padua
- Mission San Miguel
- Mount Madonna
- Mount Rubidoux
- Presidio Ghost Deer
- The Terrible Curse of Griffith Park
- White Lady of Santa Maria
- County by County Hauntings
- Kern County Ghosts
- Bakersfield Californian Newspaper
- Bakersfield Central Park
- Bakersfield High School
- Browning Road Lady
- Lake Isabella
- San Francisco County Ghosts
- Atherton Mansion
- Curran Theatre
- Flora Sommerton
- Ghost Ship Squando
- Golden Gate Bridge
- Kearny Street Ghost
- Mansions Hotel
- Phantom Cow of Yerba Buena Island (and Bay Bridge Haunts)
- Queen Anne Hotel
- San Francisco Art Institute
- Stow Lake
- Whittier Mansion
- San Luis Obispo County Ghosts
- Adelaida Cemetery
- Avila Beach Spirit
- Black Lake
- Captain Cass's House
- Coffee Rice House
- Frog and Peach Pub
- James Dean Memorial
- Lincoln Adelaida School
- Mission San Miguel
- Pitkin-Conrow House
- Pyramid Mausoleums
- Sunny Acres
- This Ole House
- Santa Barbara County Ghosts
- Far Western Tavern
- Ghostly Carriage, Coaches and Horses
- Las Cruces Adobe
- Las Tres Hermanas
- Painted Cave
- San Miguel Island
- Santa Maria High School
- Santa Maria Inn
- White Lady of Santa Maria
- Ventura County Ghosts
- Haunted Bridges
- Bakersfield Central Park
- Char Man
- Felton Covered Bridge
- Golden Gate Bridge
- Pasadena's Suicide Bridge
- Phantom Cow of Yerba Buena Island (and Bay Bridge Haunts)
- Haunted Businesses
- Bakersfield Californian Newspaper
- Bella Maggiore Inn
- Curran Theatre
- El Fandango Restaurant
- Far Western Tavern
- Frog and Peach Pub
- Horton Grand Hotel
- Julian Gold Rush Hotel
- Queen Anne Hotel
- Santa Maria Inn
- The Cosmopolitan Hotel
- Toys R Us
- Haunted Cemeteries
- Adelaida Cemetery
- El Campo Santo Cemetery
- Hollywood Forever Cemetery
- LA Pet Cemetery
- White Lady of Santa Cruz
- Haunted Houses
- Atherton Mansion
- Captain Cass's House
- Clifton Webb House
- Coffee Rice House
- Greystone Mansion
- Houdini Mansion
- Kearny Street Ghost
- LA County Arboretum
- Mansions Hotel
- Pitkin-Conrow House
- Robinson Rose House
- Stagecoach Inn
- This Ole House
- Villa Montezuma Mansion
- Whaley House
- Whittier Mansion
- Winchester Mystery House
- Haunted Lakes
- Haunted Roads
- Browning Road Lady
- Ghostly Carriage, Coaches and Horses
- Lady in White of Sycamore Road
- Las Tres Hermanas
- Proctor Valley Road
- Prospectors Road
- Haunted Schools
- Bakersfield High School
- California State University Channel Islands
- Ghosts of UC Berkeley
- Lincoln Adelaida School
- San Francisco Art Institute
- Santa Maria High School
- Sunny Acres
- Haunted Ships
- White Lady Ghosts
- History
- Angel's Flight
- Barstow Main Street
- Battle of Los Angeles
- Bert Barrett's Left Arm
- Cottonwood Charcoal Kilns
- Daggett
- Emperor Norton
- Galilee
- Joaquin Murrieta's Horse Groomer
- Longest Burning Light Bulb in the World
- Muroc Maru
- Pasadena Cheeseburger Plaque
- Route 66 - End of the Trail
- Standard Oil
- State of Jefferson
- The Alibi Clock
- The Attack on Goleta
- The Corpse of Elmer McCurdy
- The Giant Steer of Buttonwillow
- The Head of John Muir
- USS Recruit
- Legends
- Camels of the American West
- Dark Watchers
- Houdini Mansion
- Lost Ship of the Desert
- Maze Stone
- Mugu Rock
- San Miguel Island
- The Curse of the Livermore Totem Pole
- The Terrible Curse of Griffith Park
- William Waddell's Arm
- Missing Treasures
- Lost Ship of the Desert
- Lost Treasures of Death Valley
- Mission San Miguel
- The Lost Gold of the Ada Hancock
- Monsters
- Borrego Sandman
- Char Man
- Chupacabras
- Dark Watchers
- Elsie
- Lizard People
- Lone Pine Mountain Devil
- Penelope, Monster of the Sierra Nevada's
- Proctor Valley Road
- Santa Cruz Sea Monster
- Tahoe Tessie
- Tahquitz
- The Billiwhack Monster
- The Black Demon
- The Monster of Elizabeth Lake
- Wetzel's Riverside Monster
- Natural Weirdness
- Calla Lily Valley
- Devil's Golf Course
- McWay Falls
- Morro Rock
- Old Woman Meteorite
- Partington Cove
- Pfeiffer Beach
- Roadside Attractions
- Alamo Menagerie
- Auburn Statues
- Avenue of Faces
- Chromatic Gate
- Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
- Easter Island Heads
- Fighter Plane Crash Gas Station
- Fruit Cocktail Water Tower
- Giant VW Spider Bug
- Gumby and Pokey
- Hidden Garden Steps
- Invisible Free Speech Monument
- James Dean Memorial
- Los Angeles's Programmatic Architecture
- Magowan's Infinite Mirror Maze
- Peggy Sue's 50's Diner
- Santa Claus
- Swedish Coffee Pot
- The Clown of North Hollywood
- Trees of Mystery
- Urban Light
- Vermonica
- World's Largest Totem Pole
- World's Longest Garlic Braid
- Alien Invasion Sites
- Filming Locations
- Land of the Giants
- A&W Burger Family
- Android Sculpture Garden
- Bell Plastics
- Big Chair
- Bob's Big Boy
- Carpeteria Genie
- Fork in the Road
- Giant Books
- Giant Chess Set
- Giant Chickens
- Giant Clams of Pismo
- Giant Coke Products
- Giant Fire Helmet
- Giant Hot Dogs
- Giant Ice Cream Sundae
- Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove
- Giant Olives of California
- Giant Orange Stands of California
- Giant Shasta Soda Cans
- Ivy Poodle
- Large Hamburgers
- Monopoly in the Park
- Muffler Men
- Templeton Milk Bottle
- The Barrel
- The Brown Derby
- The Giant Steer of Buttonwillow
- World's Largest Artichoke
- World's Largest Box of Raisins
- World's Largest Desert Tortoise
- World's Largest Handmade Candy Cane
- World's Largest Paper Cup
- World's Tallest Thermometer
- Roadside Dinosaurs
- Cabazon Dinosaurs
- Concrete Dinosaurs
- Dixie the Dinosaur
- Jurupa Mountains Discovery Center
- Metal Dinosaurs
- Sinclair Dinosaurs
- Strange Rocks
- Seasonal Weird
- Weird
- Alien Trompe-l'Oeil Murals
- Amboy Chinese Guardians
- Artwork Forge
- Ballerina Clown
- Bubblegum Alley
- Bunny Henge
- Center of Silicon Valley
- Defenestration
- Desert Christ Park
- Eggheads
- Elmer's Bottle Tree Ranch
- Fry's Electronics Alien Invasion
- Giant Rock Teddy Bear
- Gravity Hill
- Maltese Falcon
- Oakland Gnomes
- Orange Street Alley
- Penny Bar
- Plug Preserve
- Pyramid Mausoleums
- Randyland
- Redwood City Shadow Art
- Singing Chickens and Egg Vending Machine
- The Last Bookstore
- Tio's Tacos
- Train Themed Fry's
- Wave Organ
- Yeti Statues
- Weird Outside California
- Giant Shuttlecocks of Kansas City
- Weird Seattle
- World's Largest Wagon Wheel and Pickax
- Weird Arizona
- Weird Chicago
- Weird Nevada
- Captain Kirk Court
- Glass Flowers, the Conservatory and a Giant Chocolate Fountain
- Las Vegas Murals
- Pink Elephant
- Pipe Dream
- Sinclair Dinosaurs
- Weird Las Vegas
- General Weirdness
- Big Rig Jig
- Headless Statue of Lenin
- International Car Forest of the Last Church
- Llama Parking Lot
- Shan-Gri-La Prehistoric Park
- History
- Land of the Giants
- Carpeteria Genie
- Giant Burger Meal
- Giant Chickens of Nevada
- Giant Coke Products
- Giant Cow
- Giant Flashlight
- Giant Fries and Soda
- Giant Licking Cat Head
- Lumberjacks
- Paddleboat Shaped Casino
- Prospector Statues
- Two Giant Slot Machines
- World's Largest Firecracker
- World's Largest Functioning Fire Hydrant
- Roadside Attractions
- Hand of Faith Gold Nugget
- Jean Movie Car Collection
- Las Vegas Arches
- Las Vegas Blarney Stone
- Seven Magic Mountains
- World's Largest Chevron
- Spooky and Supernatural
- California
- Penelope, Monster of the Sierra Nevada's
- County
- Alameda County
- Amador County
- Butte County
- Colusa County
- Contra Costa County
- Del Norte County
- El Dorado County
- Fresno County
- Humboldt County
- Imperial County
- Inyo County
- Kern County
- Los Angeles County
- Los Angeles's Programmatic Architecture
- Acton
- Agoura Hills
- Altadena
- Arcadia
- Bellflower
- Beverly Hills
- Burbank
- Calabasas
- Carson
- Claremont
- Compton
- East Los Angeles
- El Monte
- Gardena
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- Hollywood
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- Lancaster
- Littlerock
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- Los Angeles
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- Van Nuys
- Venice
- Watts
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- Whittier
- Woodland Hills
- Madera County
- Marin County
- Mendocino County
- Merced County
- Monterey County
- Napa County
- Orange County
- Placer County
- Riverside County
- Banning
- Cabazon
- Calimesa
- Corona
- Hemet
- Idyllwild
- Jurupa Valley
- Lake Elsinore
- Moreno Valley
- Norco
- Palm Springs
- Perris
- Riverside
- Temecula
- Sacramento County
- San Bernardino County
- Amboy
- Apple Valley
- Bagdad
- Baker
- Barstow
- Daggett
- Fontana
- Hesperia
- Joshua Tree
- Lucerne Valley
- Mentone
- Needles
- Newberry Springs
- Nipton
- Ontario
- Oro Grande
- Redlands
- Rialto
- San Bernardino
- Trona
- Twentynine Palms
- Upland
- Victorville
- Yermo
- Yucca Valley
- Zzyzx
- San Diego County
- Borrego Springs
- Calsbad
- Cardiff
- Chula Vista
- Encinitas
- Escondido
- Jacumba
- Jamul
- Julian
- La Jolla
- Lemon Grove
- National City
- Oceanside
- Ranchita
- San Diego
- Santee
- San Francisco County
- San Joaquin County
- San Luis Obispo County
- Arroyo Grande
- Atascadero
- Avila Beach
- Cambria
- Cayucos
- Cholame
- Morro Bay
- Oceano
- Paso Robles
- Pismo Beach
- San Luis Obispo
- San Miguel
- San Simeon
- Santa Margarita
- Templeton
- San Mateo County
- Santa Barbara County
- San Miguel Island
- Buellton
- Gaviota
- Goleta
- Guadalupe
- Montecito
- Santa Barbara
- Santa Maria
- Santa Ynez
- Solvang
- Santa Clara County
- Santa Cruz County
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