Trona Pinnacles ( HBO WestWorld )

Chances are that you have seen this place before! When a place as starkly ethereal as this is close to Hollywood, it's a safe bet that it'll show up in more than a few movies and TV commercials. It showed up in one of the early Star Trek movies (so far back that the original TV series stars were in it) and the first Planet of the Apes movie as well as HBO WestWorld . It's on a dirt road that is usually easily accessible by ordinary vehicles. It's a mile or so off the highway, and worth the effort. You can drive a typical small car to the pinnacles but I would not really drive a small car THRU the pinnacles as there are some hairy spots and sinking sand spots.