Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

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

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

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

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

This Pringle-shaped ledge makes for the perfect photo op.

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

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

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

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

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 grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

A master of deception, Harry Houdini's greatest trick may have been living in two places at once.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

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

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

This collector's home is a constant work in progress.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.