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

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Built by one man in the '20s, this site is now a museum representing the Great Basin cultures.

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

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

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

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.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

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

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.