This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

Erroneously called the world's tallest flagpole, this landmark is devoted to "good neighborliness."

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

An ancient cemetery with some historic bodies underfoot.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.