An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

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

"Only the devil could play golf here."

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

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

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

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 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.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.