A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.

Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

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

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

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.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

No one's quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

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 abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

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

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

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

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.