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.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

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

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

This quiet chapel was central to a community of settlers who reclaimed an abandoned fort.

One of the largest private collections of cars manufactured by the short-lived Franklin Automobile Company.

This scrap yard doubles as a naive art gallery full of found art and farm animals.

This ancient trail has claimed the lives of over 2,000 people.

Religious statues built because of one man's bargain with God fill this peaceful sculpture garden.

The remains of this rugged homestead ranch offer a brief glimpse into a bygone era.

More than 300 years ago, a revolt at this Hopi pueblo shaped the future of the American Southwest.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.