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

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

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

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.