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

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

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

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

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.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Every year, festive decorations appear on this juniper tree located in the median strip of a busy highway.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

A kaleidoscope gallery and steampunk emporium named for a pioneering journalist.

This sinkhole in the Arizona desert is filled with carbonated, arsenic-rich water

Crafted in 1911, this steam locomotive spent its entire working life in Flagstaff.

In 1975, a forestry worker in Arizona claimed to have been abducted by a UFO.

A replica of the flagpole that gave a frontier town its name.

Originally conceived as part of a proposed Arizona State Capitol building in the 1950s, this structure built in 2004 stands as a monument to the architect's legacy.