The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

This strangely vacant Western amusement seems to be an empty tribute to residents of Lucerne Valley.

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

Etched into a dry lake bed, this massive directional indicator is accurate without magnets.

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

Mexican food and folk art.

A small medical museum with a recreated doctor's office.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

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

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

Over one million bird-related artifacts await.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

One of the only known surviving coconut palm trees in the entire state.

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

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

This Southern Californian Conservation Center is home to singing and howling apes.

Museum dedicated to the preservation of surf culture.