The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

This diner's a kitschy dreamland for anyone whose heart is stuck in the 1980s.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

This former boomtown "island" is now submerged below Folsom Lake.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.