A master of deception, Harry Houdini's greatest trick may have been living in two places at once.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

A classically trained chef makes beloved burritos inside a gas station.

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

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

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

Where a railroad loops under or over itself to rise or drop more than 70 feet in a short distance.

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

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

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

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

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

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

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

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

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

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

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

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

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.