Mexican food and folk art.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

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

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Rusted structures stand like ghosts of Cyprus' 6,000-year-old copper industry.

This former Cyprus flight hub is now a crumbling, abandoned ghost complex.

An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.

Where's a guy to go after a long, hard day at work?

One of the earliest large-scale "hyper" roofs in the U.K. is now a derelict roadside attraction.

A hidden gem in the middle of the city's infamous Jewelry Quarter.

This hill and tower are steeped in legend, from King Arthur to the Holy Grail.

Abandoned for over 20 years, this art deco seaside swimming pool is a magnificent waste.

Constructed from recycled wrought iron railroad tracks, it's been described as the most beautiful seaside pier in England.