The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

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

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

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 highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

This now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.

There are eight natural springs around town, each with a slightly different taste.

Community owned and operated, this property is home to a diverse set of nudists.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

Colorado's only true geyser is hidden within the San Juan National Forest.