An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

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

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

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.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

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

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

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

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.

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.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.