Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

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.

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

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

The Citrus Variety Collection at UC Riverside contains two trees of each of the 1,000+ varieties of citrus.

The winter home of millions of migrating monarch butterflies.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses separated by a bridge.

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.