Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

The sun acts as a key that only fits this giant keyhole twice a year.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

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

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

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

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

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

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

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.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.