This conservation area is also home to many of the region's desert tortoises.

This outdoor observatory offers stellar views and a scale model of our solar system.

The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

The Hopi-style structure was built by the man who discovered Desert Hot Springs' famous mineral water.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

This strangely vacant Western amusement seems to be an empty tribute to residents of Lucerne Valley.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

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

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

While you're unlikely to find riches here these days, this remote mine is a time capsule of the Gold Rush era.

In California, colorful roadside signs remind us all that love transcends borders.