One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

Large tower used for simulating radiation of Hiroshima bomb and the tallest object ever relocated.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

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

Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

A wild west scene starring life-sized wooden statues hides in the trees behind Pierce College.

Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.