Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

The "Kill Bill Church" was transformed into a place of worship after a long Hollywood history.

The disdain for this dysfunctional dam is reflected in a giant pair of scissors painted on the concrete face.

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

California's longest-running tourist attraction is a stump.

These colossal desert barcodes have been fine-tuning spy satellites for decades.

Cambria's most unique B&B features creative surroundings and fantastic food.

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

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

This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

Etched into a dry lake bed, this massive directional indicator is accurate without magnets.

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

This unique bed and breakfast was first constructed during the 1800s by a Russian immigrant family.

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

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

Hidden beneath a lake for decades, this brutalist mine has now emerged from beneath the receding waters.

This trench, some 2,300 feet long, is only the most prominent relic of a largely forgotten episode of placer mining on the east slope of the Sierra Nevada.

This large chunk of dark rock is a relic from an ancient volcanic eruption.