A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

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

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

In 1967, murder and mayhem disrupted the tranquility along this quiet stretch of Old Route 66.

The "Father of Arizona" tried to build a Zoroastrian fire temple on the hill where he's now buried.

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

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

Meet 'Big Josh,' the 20-foot-tall muffler man.

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

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

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

This outdoor observatory offers stellar views and a scale model of our solar system.

Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

This silver-mining camp has been active intermittently from the 1860s to the present.

In this roadside "community for the small," abandoned toys gain new lives.

In California, colorful roadside signs remind us all that love transcends borders.

A collection of anti-communist sculptures stands watch in the Mojave Desert.

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.