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

Sitting right on the border between East and West Jerusalem this modern art museum is in itself a symbol of Israel's hoped-for unity.

The largest dam in the world and the site of a potential disaster.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

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

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

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.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

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

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

The echoes of a railroad town that solemnly mark the end of the line.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.