The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

No one's quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Russian history in San Francisco.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

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

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.