A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

Abandoned landscape once home to "the world's largest winery."

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.