One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

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

The world's longest known cave system.

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

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

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

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

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

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

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

Etched into a dry lake bed, this massive directional indicator is accurate without magnets.

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

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

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

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

The largest geyser field in the southern hemisphere is a spectacular sight.