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

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

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

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

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

One man's prolific, decade-long quest to turn trash into artistic treasure.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

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

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

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

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

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

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

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

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

This sailor's boneyard was lost under a parking lot for decades before being rediscovered.