An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

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

The San Andreas Fault spectacularly offsets this creek.

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

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.

The stone walls of a home built to withstand a California wildfire still stand after more than a century.

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

Somewhere between an art studio and a print shop, this artists storefront is a house of worship devoted to type.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

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.

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

Inspiring Earthlings to Boldly Go.

A monument to the legacy of the man who created Spongebob Squarepants at the school where his passion for art and marine biology began.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.