This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

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

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

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

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

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

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.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

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

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

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

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.