This park is home to California's first oil boomtown, with structures that have stood for more than a century.

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

According to legend it was a nap taken under this tree that kicked off the California Gold Rush.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

This Southern Californian Conservation Center is home to singing and howling apes.

The former home of silent film star Harry Carry.

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

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

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

Built by one man in the '20s, this site is now a museum representing the Great Basin cultures.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

These colossal desert barcodes have been fine-tuning spy satellites for decades.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

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

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Etched into a dry lake bed, this massive directional indicator is accurate without magnets.

The first steel dam in the world and the only one still functional in the United States.

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

This comprehensive collection features Native American artifacts dating back centuries.