Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

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

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

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

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

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

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

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

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

Once a state-of-the-art tuberculosis treatment spa, these ruins are now ruled by paintball players.

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

A tower marking the spot where Yugoslavia began its resistance against the invading Nazis stands neglected, but not quite forgotten.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.

A forgotten and crumbling Yugoslav monument to the victims of fascism.

Croatia's towering concrete blossom grows from the site of a World War II concentration camp.