Hundreds of wooden coffins dangle from cliffs and caves in the Philippines.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

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

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

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

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

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

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

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

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

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

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

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

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.