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

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

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

A performance hall at the American Jewish University moonlights as a sci-fi film location set.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

Built by one man in the '20s, this site is now a museum representing the Great Basin cultures.

Gouged in the mountain to make stage coach access easier through the Fremont Pass.

According to legend it was a nap taken under this tree that kicked off the California Gold Rush.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

A B-17 bomber stands as a memorial to the residents of Tulare County who served in World War II.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

The Zalud family experienced a number of tragedies in one decade, giving rise to rumors that the 19th century house is haunted.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

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

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

In the country around Buttonwillow, California, a marker commemorates a revealing moment in the story of a water colony from the fictional Kcymaerxthaere that sought independence.