On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

Mexican food and folk art.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

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

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.

The largest drain hole in the world.

Wheels of chrome by the thousands adorn this California Historical Landmark.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

A poignant memorial to a young boy whose death spurred a dramatic increase in organ donations in Italy—dubbed the "Nicholas Effect."

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.