This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

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

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.