A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

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.

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

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

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

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

The last of its kind in the country.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

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

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This historic bridge has weathered fires and floods and still stands, now abandoned, where it has stood since 1874.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.