This secluded date farm can be reached only by following a bumpy, single-lane desert road.

A porcelain company's former dumping ground, completely covered in pieces of collectible ceramics.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

This general store offers visitors a glimpse back into the 1930s.

Astronomers plan to launch a space telescope into orbit, to find out what exactly stands in the way of an asteroid hitting Earth.

This park is home to California's first oil boomtown, with structures that have stood for more than a century.

The White House Situation Room was taken apart in 2006 and shipped to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

You don't have to be a diplomat to visit the so-called Camp David of the West.

One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.

Find regional specialties from the Thai-Laotian border inside in a North Hollywood swap meet's food court.

An unexpected and peaceful oasis on a hillside.

A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.

Formerly Fire Station No. 27, the museum is a hidden gem in the heart of Hollywood.

Each summer, the migratory bats living beneath the bypass form "batnadoes" at dusk.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

A strange mishmash of ruins and abandoned structures hint at the park's many lives.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

This childhood throwback has hundreds of arcade games and pinball machines to transport you back in time.

One man's quest for the ultimate road trip vehicle.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

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

Spend a day hanging out with domesticated Russian foxes.