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A mental health hospital dating back more than 139 years, now features a museum.

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

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

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

Amazing meticulous gardens of personal wood carvings, Hydrangea, Canna, and many other flowers.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

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

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.