America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

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

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

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

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

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

The current Eureka County Courthouse replaced an all-wooden structure that had previously been an ice-skating rink.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.