Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

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.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

A strange mishmash of ruins and abandoned structures hint at the park's many lives.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

A different Edgar Allan Poe built this charming Victorian home.

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.

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

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

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

Southern California’s Theme Park Beginnings.

A landmark for a trailblazer for female architects and the designer of one of the most famous and opulent buildings in California.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

Where decommissioned airplanes and helicopters go to become part of Hollywood.

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

The "Kill Bill Church" was transformed into a place of worship after a long Hollywood history.

These colossal desert barcodes have been fine-tuning spy satellites for decades.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

Deep in the Ocala National Forest, a lonesome 19th-century grave.

This whimsical outsider art wall holds tiny treasures donated by the local community.