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From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

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

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

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

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

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

No one’s quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

This Pringle-shaped ledge makes for the perfect photo op.

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

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

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

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.