A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Southern California’s Theme Park Beginnings.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

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

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

This is one really big nut.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

What is the Thing?

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.