This California estate was either haunted by ghosts or the Marx brothers.

Despite its extensive history, this fort saw little to no combat.

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

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

A collection of anti-communist sculptures stands watch in the Mojave Desert.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

This former open-pit manganese mine is now a massive graffiti canvas.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

The stone walls of a home built to withstand a California wildfire still stand after more than a century.

The ruins of the movie ranch owned by actor and stuntman Ray "Crash" Corrigan.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

Pay your respects to departed pets, both celebrity and otherwise.

The mysterious, untimely death of a Canned Heat band member still haunts this unfinished home.

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

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.