Experience a charming 1930's version of "infotainment."

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.

This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The final resting place of one of Hollywood’s most prolific and talented actors is on the grounds of a California Mission.

Oldest building in California still in use.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

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

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

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

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

A land of debatable treasure.