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

Whiskey lovers, this is your happy place.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

Special tunnels built so that frogs won't be killed when crossing the highway.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

Successful artist residence program has filled this ranch with dozens of sculptures over the years.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

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

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

This remarkably simple jail went over a century without an escape.