Calipatria, California
Slab City
This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.
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Calipatria, California
This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.
San Jose, California
The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.
Los Angeles, California
Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.
Los Angeles, California
In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.
Bolinas, California
This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.
Los Angeles, California
Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.
San Francisco, California
Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.
Rancho Palos Verdes, California
A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.
Landers, California
Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.
Big Pine, California
Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.
Los Angeles, California
A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.
San Francisco, California
A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.
Truckee, California
The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.
Los Angeles, California
Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.
Joshua Tree, California
Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.
Los Angeles, California
This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.
Los Angeles, California
Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.
Los Angeles, California
Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.
Palm Springs, California
An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.
Los Angeles, California
Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.
Los Angeles, California
This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.
Los Angeles, California
This 'Murder House' grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.
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.