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

This outdoor observatory offers stellar views and a scale model of our solar system.

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

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

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

This strangely vacant Western amusement seems to be an empty tribute to residents of Lucerne Valley.

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

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

The 72-foot giant escaped confinement in a large patch of mulch only to be reburied in the sandy shores of the Potomac River.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

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.

According to legend it was a nap taken under this tree that kicked off the California Gold Rush.

Gouged in the mountain to make stage coach access easier through the Fremont Pass.

Oldest building in California still in use.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Because there's no place like home.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

This grand memorial remembers the 20 members of the Los Angeles Times killed when the office was bombed.

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

A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.