Places VeeP916 Wants to Go

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

The oldest pictographs on this decorated rock formation in California's Carrizo Plain date back as many as 4,000 years.

A mountain range on an active U.S. Navy base hides thousands of mysterious prehistoric rock carvings.

This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

An expansive and intricately restored mansion remains from over a century ago--and so do its ghosts.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

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

The longest covered bridge west of the Mississippi River.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

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.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

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

Deep vertical fissures like miniature slot canyons cut across the cemented volcanic rock of Black Point above Mono Lake.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

After the nearby mercury mine shut down, this town was abandoned and declared a Superfund site.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

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

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