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

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

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

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

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

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

A small, peaceful sculpture garden with a grim memorial to a disaster that took place a few blocks away.