One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

An entertaining journey through the odd and strange awaits visitors to this shop.

Abandoned in 2009, this once popular resort destination now stands frozen in time.

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

Factory that once supported an entire company town of 350.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

Cambria's most unique B&B features creative surroundings and fantastic food.

Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

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

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

This dry lake bed contains the oldest known petroglyphs in North America.

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

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.