A remote desert lookout offers unparalleled views of the California badlands for those who brave the trek.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

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

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

A land of debatable treasure.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

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.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

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

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.