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

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

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

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

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

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

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

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

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

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

The largest drain hole in the world.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.