SaltonSea | 2017

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.