Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

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

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

Friendships have been forged over ham and eggs every Wednesday morning for nearly a century.

This childhood throwback has hundreds of arcade games and pinball machines to transport you back in time.

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

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

A fashion designer's dazzling world of Japanese collectibles is hidden in a warehouse downtown.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

A 9 year-old boy’s elaborate cardboard arcade in his father’s used auto parts store.

An abandoned 1930s gas station turned bustling neighborhood park.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

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

The famous blue house from the classic horror film "Halloween" is now a local landmark.

A rare surviving example of a pre-WWII Japanese garden, restored after years of neglect.

Former 1954 Del Mar Train Station now serves signature cocktails and delightful culinary treats, and still operates as a Metro stop.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

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