The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

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

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

"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.

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

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

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

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

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

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

Where a railroad loops under or over itself to rise or drop more than 70 feet in a short distance.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.