Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

A tribute to the disposable cups that were once manufactured here, this 68-foot-tall statue would be difficult to throw away.

Mexican food and folk art.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

Oldest building in California still in use.

This lonesome Monterey cypress has survived centuries of wind, salt, and at least one attempt at arson.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.