Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

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

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

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

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

The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

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

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.