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This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

The final resting place of a woman who never gave up on love.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

Downieville's largest Gold Rush structure still standing has one of the longest bars in California.

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.