A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

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

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

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

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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

The oldest orange tree in California spawned a generation of citrus farmers.

Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.