The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

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.

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

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

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

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

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

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

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

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

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

Two historic and closed cemeteries, separated by a low income apartment building.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.