A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

This secluded date farm can be reached only by following a bumpy, single-lane desert road.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

Thousands of acres of beautiful wild landscape in the Great Basin.

Hidden beneath a lake for decades, this brutalist mine has now emerged from beneath the receding waters.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

Where the first "expert riders, willing to risk death daily" for the Pony Express were recruited.

This 19th century train workshop is a treasure trove of railroad history.

A mesmerizing disco ball-like sculpture along the Sacramento River Walk.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

A museum dedicated to the decorative arts from the 16th through 19th centuries.

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

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall but rather lightning.

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