Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

This unique bed and breakfast was first constructed during the 1800s by a Russian immigrant family.

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

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

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

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

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

The Wonder Road aka Doobie Lane, a mile-long strip of dirt road filled with folk art.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

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

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.

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

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