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It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

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

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate turned YouTube famous.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

Where decommissioned airplanes and helicopters go to become part of Hollywood.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

These colossal desert barcodes have been fine-tuning spy satellites for decades.

The "Kill Bill Church" was transformed into a place of worship after a long Hollywood history.

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Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

Remnants of the United States's largest accidental oil spill still mar a California valley.

The San Andreas Fault spectacularly offsets this creek.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

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

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

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