Bagdad is a ghost town in the Mojave Desert, in San Bernardino County, California.

Bagdad is located along the historic U.S. Route 66, east of Barstow and Ludlow, and west of Amboy and Needles.

[2] The town was founded in 1883 when the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway line between Barstow and Needles was built.

[2] Bagdad holds the record for the longest dry streak in United States history with 767 straight days without rain, from October 3, 1912 to November 8, 1914.

The movie was shot at the Sidewinder Cafe in nearby Newberry Springs, which has since been renamed the "Bagdad Café."