Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Experience a charming 1930s version of "infotainment."

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.