Los Angeles to Las Vegas Road Trip

At Monster Park, your kids can ride a dolphin, slay (then slide down) a dragon, wrestle an octopus and escape from the belly of a whale all before nap time.

The West Coast has its own Lady Liberty and she stands proudly in front of El Monte City Hall, highly visibly on a street corner. She's much smaller than her Liberty Island counterpart, but no less imposing ...

Baldwin Park was the birthplace of California's famed In-N-Out Burger, where the first stand was opened in 1948. It was demolished to make way for the I-10, but a replica was built to pay homage to this long...

Established 1915 this former Richfield gas station in the Inland Empire is remarkably maintained. The city of Cucamonga has preserved the station well and restored it to its original appearance from a centur...

Embedded within the Cajon Pass is a striking rock formation named for a group of Mormon travelers making their way through in 1851. The rocks are visible via a one-mile trail loop. They are home to a variety...

Roy Roger's horse was upgraded to this 24-foot tall statue. Trigger was a movie star in his own right, appearing in dozens of Hollywood films. The anatomically correct fiberglass Golden Palomino once stood g...

Fire departments around the nation stood together when their FDNY brethren and sistren died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Barstow FD paid its own tribute by commissioning a giant fiberglass ...

Peggy Sue's 50's Diner opened in 1954 just 5 years before Buddy Holly tragically died in a plane crash. True to its origins, the diner is a step back into an era of bobby socks and red jukeboxes. The menu is...

Unfortunately, these funky looking cars are locked behind a chain link fence. But you can still see these patched-together hunks of metal from the road which made appearances in the first two "Mad Max" movie...

Even though the locale is a true Old West town, many of the buildings have either been rebuilt or restored with not-so-genuine facades. Calico Ghost Town may not have any residents but it is peopled with vis...

The 65-foot-ice cream sundae (a nicely disguised water tower) is a large, colorful shout-out to dusty travelers driving through the Mojave Desert. Located in the middle of nowhere on a lonely stretch of road...

Word is that this thermometer was built to be 134 feet high to commemorate the record-breaking Death Valley summer of 1913 when temps reached a scorching 134 degrees.

(Photo by Martha Brenes)

Owners Luis and Susana Ramallo have found the perfect way to combine two of their interests - aliens and jerky. Housed in a futuristic building you have your choice of dozens of flavors of jerky as well as o...

The Nevada landscape is known for its neutral color palette. Swiss artist, Ugo Rondinone, wanted to break up a monotonous desert plain in Las Vegas. He gathered boulders and positioned them on top of one ano...

This popularized sign is a Las Vegas landmark that was constructed in 1959 and erected by Western Neon. The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign was funded and designed by Betty Willis at Ted Rogich's request ...

This iconic sign was made famous when singer/songwriter, Sheryl Crow, used it as the back cover art on her debut album "Tuesday Night Music Club" way back in 1993. Clearly visible from the 15, this is a fun ...