Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

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

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

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

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

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

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

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

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

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

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

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

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

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

One of the final grand railway depot hotel complexes is slowly being restored to its former glory.