A veteran Disney animator turned his gift for storytelling to a museum devoted to his love of a California city.

These colossal desert barcodes have been fine-tuning spy satellites for decades.

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

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

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

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

A Biblically-based Natural History Museum.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

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

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

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

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

A macabre tour of Hollywood’s deadly history.

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

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.