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

This hidden fire lookout offers spectacular views of Sequoia National Park.

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

An entertaining journey through the odd and strange awaits visitors to this shop.

This park is home to California's first oil boomtown, with structures that have stood for more than a century.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

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

This Southern Californian Conservation Center is home to singing and howling apes.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall but rather lightning.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

This small shack near the entrance to Sequoia National Park has been in almost continuous operation for the last century.

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

Remnants of the United States's largest accidental oil spill still mar a California valley.

In the country around Buttonwillow, California, a marker commemorates a revealing moment in the story of a water colony from the fictional Kcymaerxthaere that sought independence.

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

A wild west scene starring life-sized wooden statues hides in the trees behind Pierce College.

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

The oldest pictographs on this decorated rock formation in California's Carrizo Plain date back as many as 4,000 years.

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

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

The San Andreas Fault spectacularly offsets this creek.