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.

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

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

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

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

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

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

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

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

"Only the devil could play golf here."

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

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

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

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

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

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

Fans of the spicy bright-red sauce can tour where it's made.

Explore an early California pioneer's rancho hidden in LA's manufacturing hinterland.

This mysterious and creepy location instills a strong sense of foreboding in all visitors.