Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

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

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

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

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

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

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

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

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

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

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.

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.