Weird outdoor & roadside things to do in Los Angeles

Looking for weird outdoor & roadside oddities in Los Angeles? These 5 are the genuinely strange ones — Watts Towers of Simon Rodia, Cabazon Dinosaurs, The Wisdom Tree, Cahuenga Peak and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Los Angeles they'd never find on their own.

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Watts Towers of Simon Rodia Italian immigrant tile-setter Simon Rodia spent 33 years (1921-1954) building these seventeen interlocking sp… Watts, Los Angeles
Cabazon Dinosaurs Sculptor Claude Bell built these two colossal concrete dinosaurs beside Interstate 10 starting in 1964 to lur… Cabazon, California
The Wisdom Tree, Cahuenga Peak A single solitary pine clings to the spine of Cahuenga Peak, the lone tree in the area that survived the 2007… Hollywood Hills / Griffith Park
Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park Tilted slabs of sandstone jut from the desert floor at a dramatic 45-degree angle, up to 150 feet high, expos… Agua Dulce
Galleta Meadows Sky Art Sculptures Across roughly 3,000 acres of open desert, landowner Dennis Avery commissioned artist Ricardo Breceda to plan… Borrego Springs