Where decommissioned airplanes and helicopters go to become part of Hollywood.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

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

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

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

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

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

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.