This is a great video showing a few of the 130 metal sculptures around Borrego Springs.
The metal sculptures in the desert in the Borrego Springs area are one of the weird places I've heard about fairly recently. I haven't had a chance to get out there yet in person, but this video is a good look at several of them. Bethany and Drew from this channel do a good job showing a bunch of the 130 sculptures in that area, including the 350 foot long dragon. The work involved, and the detail just seems incredible. There are sculptures of dinosaurs, extinct animals that lived in California, current animals, and some prospectors and other people.
Borrego Springs is in the Anza Borrego state park area, near Ocotillo Wells, for you motocross riders. It's a bit north of route 78, east of Carlsbad and Escondido, and west of the Salton Sea and the 111 freeway. Here's one of the online maps of where the different sculptures are.
To cap this off, here's one of the last shows from California PBS legend Huell Howser, who made a career showing us all interesting places and stories around this state. In the segment below, Huell interviews both land owner Dennis Avery and the self-taught artist who makes the sculptures, Ricardo Breceda. This clip was shot in 2012, when there were 54 sculptures. Huell Howser died about a year later, at age 67.
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