The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

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

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

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

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.