Once the largest town in eastern Yuba County now sits abandoned.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

One of the largest Buddhist communities in the West sits on the site of an old hospital.

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

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

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

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

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

The only parking meter in the entire town, it is surrounded by 100 free spaces.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

A 1920s home transformed into an immersive art experience, where every room is a portal to another realm.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.