SoCal's Best Outdoor Folk Art

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Like grandma used to say, one man's trash is another man's treasure. Check out these amazing roadside attractions all made from found and discarded objects. We promise, it won't be a "waste" of your time. Ba dum tss!

Ghost Fish

Sampson Way, San Pedro, CA

Saves: 57

Check-ins: 45

This 40-foot-tall bluefin tuna sculpture by Carl Cheng is made from stainless steel and filled with all kinds of nautical products including hooks, fishing reels, buoys, and ropes - to name a few. Apparently...

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Watts Towers

1765 E 107th St, Watts, CA

Saves: 797

Check-ins: 43

The world-famous Watts Towers, as the well-known story goes, were built by Italian immigrant Simon Rodia with simple hand tools and raw determination— merely because he “wanted to do something big.” He succe...

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Mosaic Tile House

1116 Palms Blvd, Venice, CA

Saves: 717

Check-ins: 56

Over sixteen years in the making, Cheri Pann and Gonzalo Duran's Mosaic Tile House in Venice is a multicolored, multi-media folk art masterpiece. Apart from ceramic and glass tiles, all manner of found objec...

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Airplane Parts by Nancy Rubins

250 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA

Saves: 92

Check-ins: 95

Made out of 1,000 pounds of airplane scrap metal this sculpture is perched in front of The Museum of Contemporary Art. The unwieldy work of art is placed upon a small pedestal which looks disturbingly perilo...

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Bob's Big Boy Mailbox

10612 Baird Ave, Northridge, CA

Saves: 112

Check-ins: 40

A different twist on a piece of nostalgia and one of the best DIY repurposing jobs ever. It's as if Bob's long gone Big Boy was raising an arm from the grave to serve up one final double-decker.

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Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village

4595 Cochran St, Simi Valley, CA

Saves: 157

Check-ins: 33

Some grandmas spend their golden years baking cookies and knitting sweaters. Grandma Prisbey, on the other hand, built a village complete with wishing wells, colorful pathways, and whimsical sculptures, all ...

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Tio's Tacos

3948 Mission Inn Ave, Riverside, CA

Saves: 527

Check-ins: 126

Come for the tacos, stay for the folk art! Tio’s Tacos restaurant owner Martin Sanchez flexes his artistic muscles by transforming a humble Mexican eatery into a fanciful folk art paradise made of discarded ...

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Elmer's Bottle Tree Ranch

24266 National Trails Hwy, Helend...

24266 National Trails Hwy, Helendale, CA

Saves: 507

Check-ins: 71

In 2000, Elmer Long welded a metal tree bedecked with colored class bottles to catch the California sunlight on Route 66. That tree turned into an enchanted forest made, not only of metal pipes and soda bott...

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Robolights

1077 E Granvia Valmonte, Palm Spr...

1077 E Granvia Valmonte, Palm Springs, CA

Saves: 244

Check-ins: 68

UPDATE: Some of the Robolights sculptures moved to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit.

Neon-colored metal and plastic monoliths make a sculpture garden of discarded electronic parts. Created by Ke...

UPDATE: Some of the Robolights sculptures moved to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit.

Neon-colored metal and plastic monoliths make a sculpture garden of discarded electronic parts. Created by Ke...

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Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum

63015 Blair Lane, Joshua Tree, CA

Saves: 321

Check-ins: 52

This outdoor gallery of work by renowned sculptor Noah Purifoy is pure magic. The sprawling desert landscape serves as the perfect backdrop for the weathered, industrial aesthetic of Purifoy’s structural, fo...

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Ricardo Breceda's Art Gallery

44450 CA-79 S, Aguanga, CA

Saves: 110

Check-ins: 37

Ricardo Breceda was Mexican born, but raised in California. His inspiration to become an artist started with his daughter who at 6 years of age, requested a giant T-Rex after watching "Jurassic Park." So his...

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East Jesus

E Jesus Rd, Niland, CA

Saves: 195

Check-ins: 34

If you're in the mood for dystopian scenery and art, head out to East Jesus. Appropriately, it is not too far from the gigantic swampy lake called Salton Sea. Half commune and half refugee camp for strugglin...

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Gas Island Shoe Tree

CA-62, Rice, CA

Saves: 64

Check-ins: 24

A big shoe tree makes use of an old gas station island out in the middle of nowhere. While there's no actual smoke shop here you could make it a smoke stop! Or just a place to get out and stretch you legs. H...

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Rice Shoe Fence

128751 CA-62, Rice, CA

Saves: 41

Check-ins: 17

Old footwear may seem tasteless, but it's pretty classy compared to what it replaced. This shoe fence's precursor was a shoe tree which in turn was the replacement for the Underwear Tree. After the tree burn...

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SoCal's Best Outdoor Folk Art

Ghost Fish

Watts Towers

Mosaic Tile House

Airplane Parts by Nancy Rubins

Bob's Big Boy Mailbox

Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village

Tio's Tacos

Elmer's Bottle Tree Ranch

Robolights

Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum

Ricardo Breceda's Art Gallery

East Jesus

Gas Island Shoe Tree

Rice Shoe Fence

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