Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.

The beautiful behemoth is one of the largest trees of its kind in the United States.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.

Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."

Malibu's first beach home features an astonishing trove of ceramic tiles.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

A basement full of treasures lies beneath this inn that has worn many hats throughout its 140+ years.

Drink a Guinness under the wings of Reagan's retired Air Force One in his presidential library.

An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

The ruins of the movie ranch owned by actor and stuntman Ray "Crash" Corrigan.

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 Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

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

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

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

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

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

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

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

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

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