California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

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

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

An abandoned car and strange wooden debris are among the scattered remains of the old sand and gravel quarry.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

This unique sanctuary invites you to interact with the beautiful birds.

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

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