This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

"The only replacement for a DC-3 is another DC-3."

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.