A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

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

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

Built for an exposition in 1915, these horticultural displays have stood the test of time.

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

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.