World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

Celebrating the accomplishments of Black firefighters in Los Angeles.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

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

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

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.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.