NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

Oldest building in California still in use.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

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

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

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

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

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

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.

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

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

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

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

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.