Bermuda triangle lighthouse, site of mysterious disappearances, left to crumble into the Atlantic.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

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

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

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

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

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.