This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

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

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

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.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

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

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

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

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.