World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.

This historic aviation building is now a museum owned and operated by Disney.

At 130 years old and 126 feet tall, it is the largest known example of the rare Torrey pine tree.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

Inky sludge oozes to the surface of this beach thanks to a rare natural tar seep.

French prisoners carved these boats from the bones of their meat rations.

Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.

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

Victoriana on Orange Grove Avenue.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

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

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

The echoes of a railroad town that solemnly mark the end of the line.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

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.

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

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

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

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