Beverly Hills, California
Greystone Mansion
Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.
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Beverly Hills, California
Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.
Newberry Springs, California
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.
San Jose, California
The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.
Litchfield, California
Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.
Los Angeles, California
One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.
San Diego, California
San Diego's most historic and haunted home.
Ione, California
One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.
Calistoga, California
California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.
Ludlow, California
One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.
San Francisco, California
Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.
Carlsbad, California
Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.
San Jose, California
San Francisco Bay's ghost town.
Napa, California
The largest drain hole in the world.
Berkeley, California
A storybook European village in Berkeley.
Los Angeles, California
This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.
Mount Baldy, California
Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.
San Francisco, California
The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.
Humboldt County, California
One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.
Amboy, California
The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.
Los Angeles, California
Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.
Bridgeport, California
Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.
La Cañada Flintridge, California
An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.
San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
San Francisco, California
A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.