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

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

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

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

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

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

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

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.

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

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.

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

This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.