The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

Despite being made of a seashell mortar, the crumbling remains of this historic Florida mill are still standing.

These mysterious ruins are hidden amid this sleepy coastal city.

A local road runs around a memorial to a teenager who died in 1860.

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

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

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

Built as a schoolhouse in 1914, this Mission-style building has also served as a dancehall, a library, an Army canteen, and now a cultural museum.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

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

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.

Where decommissioned airplanes and helicopters go to become part of Hollywood.

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

Built by one man in the '20s, this site is now a museum representing the Great Basin cultures.

The "Kill Bill Church" was transformed into a place of worship after a long Hollywood history.

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

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

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

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.

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

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.