At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

This eight-mile stretch of road gets its name from a local legend about a lost soul searching for his head.

In the late 1990s, a mechanic and fan bought this iconic sportscar back from the dead.

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

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

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

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

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.

Hidden beneath a lake for decades, this brutalist mine has now emerged from beneath the receding waters.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

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

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.