The Zalud family experienced a number of tragedies in one decade, giving rise to rumors that the 19th century house is haunted.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

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

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

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

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

California's oldest existing theater building hosted an impressive cast of celebrities, including hosting Mark Twain's first lecture.

"You don't need a rocket scientist to build a steam engine, but we've got one." -Museum docent on the credentials of a restoration volunteer.

Established in 1853, this crumbling cemetery sits forgotten on the corner of Church and Chapel in Gold Country.

A rich history stashed behind an unassuming door in the heart of Gold Country.

Built in 1895, this bed and breakfast was once a hospital that served an early 1900s Gold Rush boomtown.

The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.

An abandoned lot littered with concrete debris was once the home of the world's first female railroad president.