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

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

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

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

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

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.