Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

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

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

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

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

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

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

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

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

Because there's no place like home.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

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

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.