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

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

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

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

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

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

Windswept and remote, this island was once the home of a rare mammoth and today is home to a rare tree.

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

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

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.

Famous and forgotten figures lie beneath the faded headstones and decaying planks of wood.

A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.