The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

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 giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

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

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

An artist's vision for connectivity spans seven continents and 16 countries.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

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

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.