Though the original building has been demolished, these massive bronze doors were saved.

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

This abandoned motel doesn't welcome guests anymore, but decay and a creepy atmosphere still call it home.

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

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

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.

Hidden beneath a lake for decades, this brutalist mine has now emerged from beneath the receding waters.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

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

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

The last of its kind in the country.

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

"The greatest unknown literary treasure in Los Angeles."

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

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

Rare collectibles from automated musical instruments to 250 unique automobiles.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.