The tallest bridge in California was constructed for a project that was eventually cancelled.

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

A B-17 bomber stands as a memorial to the residents of Tulare County who served in World War II.

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

Where a railroad loops under or over itself to rise or drop more than 70 feet in a short distance.

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

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

This temple, built by an eccentric religious leader before his death, sits guarded and in ruins.

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

The "Kill Bill Church" was transformed into a place of worship after a long Hollywood history.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

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

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

These colossal desert barcodes have been fine-tuning spy satellites for decades.

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