A series of labyrinths in the Nevada desert inspire meditation and calmness.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

These unusual houses look like giant boats that washed ashore on a residential street.

Sojourn to the past at this residence teeming with 1950s memorabilia.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

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

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

A land of debatable treasure.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

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

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.