Wool processing mill in an unlikely location.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

The largest Star Wars collection in the world is its own galaxy of collectibles.

This lesser known Hearst estate is a fairytale village built from the stolen bones of historic European buildings.

Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.

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

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

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Mexican food and folk art.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.