Stand at the center of this lakefront sundial, and you'll become part of the timepiece.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

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

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

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

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

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

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

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

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

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

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.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

This street was the filming location of the iconic flying bicycle scene from “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.”

Gouged in the mountain to make stage coach access easier through the Fremont Pass.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.