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

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

This Pringle-shaped ledge makes for the perfect photo op.

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

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

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

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

This unique sanctuary invites you to interact with the beautiful birds.

A large sculptural artwork and garden in Escondido, California.

A black and white painted wall creates an optical illusion in the California desert.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.

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

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

Factory that once supported an entire company town of 350.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

The Hopi-style structure was built by the man who discovered Desert Hot Springs' famous mineral water.

Mediums from a psychic utopian community lead a trippy VR journey on a parked desert bus.

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.