This 1930s log cabin began as a taxidermy museum but is now a popular country music venue.

A replica of the flagpole that gave a frontier town its name.

A mass grave for victims of an airline disaster that led to much-needed safety improvements for commercial flights.

The final resting place of the businessman-turned-astronomer who helped discover Pluto stands near his observatory.

A planet-hunting astrograph built in the 1920s to seek out the so-called "Planet X" beyond Uranus.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

A series of labyrinths in the Nevada desert inspire meditation and calmness.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

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

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

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

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

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

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

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

Lemon Grove, California is known for its giant lemon...and mummified bodies.

The Yiddish language stages a renaissance in a shtetl-inspired cultural center on the San Diego coast.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A towering bronze statue memorializes the founding father of postwar American conservatism.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.