A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

Half of a house.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.