An abandoned car and strange wooden debris are among the scattered remains of the old sand and gravel quarry.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.

Internationally-recognized arts center housed in a century-old former military barracks.

The largest Star Wars collection in the world is its own galaxy of collectibles.

A celebration of once forgotten materials.

A porcelain company's former dumping ground, completely covered in pieces of collectible ceramics.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft perfume fragrances.

One man's prolific, decade-long quest to turn trash into artistic treasure.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

Abandoned landscape once home to "the world's largest winery."

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

A rough granite monument marks the spot where Europeans first caught sight of the San Francisco Bay.

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.