A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

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

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

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

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

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

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

"Only the devil could play golf here."

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

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

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

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

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

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

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

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

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