Places downwardspiral Wants to Go

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

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

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

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

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

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

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

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.