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

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

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

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

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

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

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

The largest drain hole in the world.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.