The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The last Americana on Route 66.

The home of one of California's most important horticulturalists wilts amidst a lovely park.

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.

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

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

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

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

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.