This amateur-built East African church with mismatched towers is an architectural abnormality.

A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.

Oldest building in California still in use.

Tijuana's legendary jai alai or "basque ball" palace is now a massive music venue.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

The American rainmaker and a burst dam.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

Etched into a dry lake bed, this massive directional indicator is accurate without magnets.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

The last Americana on Route 66.

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

This strangely vacant Western amusement seems to be an empty tribute to residents of Lucerne Valley.

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

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

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

"Only the devil could play golf here."