Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

Sasqu(w)atch out!

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Delve into a wealth of oddities, antiques, and taxidermy treasures.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

The creator of the carousel's bingo-pinball hybrid survives in California's oldest gaming establishment.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

The Zalud family experienced a number of tragedies in one decade, giving rise to rumors that the 19th century house is haunted.

The home of one of California's most important horticulturalists wilts amidst a lovely park.

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

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

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

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

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

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