Byron, California
Byron Hot Springs Hotel
A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.
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Byron, California
A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.
San Simeon, California
The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.
Santa Barbara, California
Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.
Los Angeles, California
This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.
San Bernardino, California
A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.
San Francisco, California
A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.
Beverly Hills, California
Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.
Ione, California
One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.
San Francisco, California
The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.
Santa Ynez, California
The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.
San Francisco, California
A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.
Mono County, California
This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.
Big Sur, California
This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.
Ludlow, California
One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.
Inyo County, California
The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.
Berkeley, California
Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.
Los Angeles, California
Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.
Silverado, California
The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.
Three Rivers, California
These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.
San Francisco, California
Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.
Bishop, California
The echoes of a railroad town that solemnly mark the end of the line.
Big Pine, California
Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.
San Francisco, California
A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.
San Francisco, California
Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.