A modern day curiosity cabinet.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

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.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

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

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

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

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

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

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

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

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