Keeler, California
Cerro Gordo
A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate turned YouTube famous.
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Keeler, California
A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate turned YouTube famous.
Death Valley, California
Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.
Shoshone, California
A unique collection of old miners' cave homes carved in to the hillside cliffs near Death Valley.
Tecopa, California
A mysterious and endangered parasitic herb from the California desert.
Tecopa, California
This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.
Crestline, California
Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.
Oro Grande, California
Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.
Edwards Air Force Base, California
These colossal desert barcodes have been fine-tuning spy satellites for decades.
Lancaster, California
Built by one man in the '20s, this site is now a museum representing the Great Basin cultures.
El Mirage, California
Where decommissioned airplanes and helicopters go to become part of Hollywood.
Agua Dulce, California
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.
Palmdale, California
See four top-secret US spy aircraft of the Cold War era, including the legendary SR-71 Blackbird and the A-12 Oxcart.
Palmdale, California
The road plays 30 seconds of the Marine’s Hymn when driving over the grooved pavement.
Lancaster, California
Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.
Lancaster, California
Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.
Edwards Air Force Base, California
Etched into a dry lake bed, this massive directional indicator is accurate without magnets.
Randsburg, California
This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.
California
This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.
Trona, California
One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.
Inyo County, California
Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.
Inyo County, California
A mountain range on an active U.S. Navy base hides thousands of mysterious prehistoric rock carvings.
Olancha, California
A charming easy-to-miss sculpture garden filled with whimsical and thought-provoking metal sculptures.
Pendleton, Oregon
The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.
Corbett, Oregon
A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.