The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

A working model of a pressure-driven, high-speed rail whizzes around a private vineyard.

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

The remains of a deserted steamboat sit rusting beside an old ferry pier and an abandoned train platform.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

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

Factory that once supported an entire company town of 350.

Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.

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

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

No one's quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

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 ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

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

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

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

This park is home to California's first oil boomtown, with structures that have stood for more than a century.

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

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

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.