This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

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

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

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

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

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

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.