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

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

A land of debatable treasure.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

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

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

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

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

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