This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Lemon Grove, California is known for its giant lemon...and mummified bodies.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

This simple highway curve has become a comedic pilgrimage site.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

In the country around Buttonwillow, California, a marker commemorates a revealing moment in the story of a water colony from the fictional Kcymaerxthaere that sought independence.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

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 ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.