This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

Because there's no place like home.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

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

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.