A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

This cabin from the 1850s is one of the first structures built by Chinese immigrants in California.

The only museum and archive west of the Mississippi that is dedicated to the study of Abraham Lincoln.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

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

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

The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.

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

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

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

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

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

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

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

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

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

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

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

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.