This arid landscape was once a lush wetland. Today, it's a paleontological site filled with fossilized mammoths, sabertooth cats, and more.

Now a city park, this site started as a stage stop, then was a working ranch, and finally became a dude ranch that specialized in letting wannabe divorcees establish Nevada residency.

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

See Hoover Dam and the bypass bridge from a perspective usually off-limits to the public, and float the upper part of the Black Canyon National Water Trail.

A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

Unusual white sandstone formations in the Los Padres National Forest.

Pay your respects to departed pets, both celebrity and otherwise.

The restored estate of a wealthy rancher was once at the heart of an unprecedented legal victory.

Two side-by-side historic and closed cemeteries.

Kayak out to a floating restroom.

The disdain for this dysfunctional dam is reflected in a giant pair of scissors painted on the concrete face.

Make sweet music as you walk through this interactive sonic sculpture.

Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."

The White House Situation Room was taken apart in 2006 and shipped to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

Drink a Guinness under the wings of Reagan's retired Air Force One in his presidential library.

A strange mishmash of ruins and abandoned structures hint at the park's many lives.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

Malibu's first beach home features an astonishing trove of ceramic tiles.

Tucked away behind an unassuming set of shops is a must-see series of stunning murals.

The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove.