Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

An ultra-modern vista that has been featured in so many films the house is a celebrity in its own right.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

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

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

Hand-crafted tributes to a stray cat named "Room 8" now cover this LA elementary school.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

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

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.

One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Three-story slide through the New Museum.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.