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.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

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

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

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

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

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.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

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

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

"Only the devil could play golf here."

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

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

Where a railroad loops under or over itself to rise or drop more than 70 feet in a short distance.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.