Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

In California, colorful roadside signs remind us all that love transcends borders.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

The final resting place of the songwriter who penned “Take Me Out To The Ball Game."

Famous and forgotten figures lie beneath the faded headstones and decaying planks of wood.

These colossal desert barcodes have been fine-tuning spy satellites for decades.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

The beloved dining spot stands at the cross-section of Hollywood and the Old West.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

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

The so-called "Bridge of Thighs" in Palm Springs allows nudists to discreetly cross the road.

The Citrus Variety Collection at UC Riverside contains two trees of each of the 1,000+ varieties of citrus.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

One of the only known surviving coconut palm trees in the entire state.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

The Zalud family experienced a number of tragedies in one decade, giving rise to rumors that the 19th century house is haunted.

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

This Southern Californian Conservation Center is home to singing and howling apes.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

An Old West film set seen in countless TV shows and movies is open for the public to explore.