Abandoned in California

A popular East Bay hiking trail houses the ruins of a sanitarium that was destroyed in a blaze 50 years ago.

A commercial fishing boat stranded on the California coast.

A remote one-room schoolhouse on Catalina Island, once a lifeline for local children, now abandoned.

Hidden deep in the Joshua Tree Wilderness, this 1940s miner's cabin built into a gap between two mega-sized boulders.

This crumbling warehouse was once the third-largest cannery in the U.S. and the first in the world to can green asparagus.

Built in the early 70s, the ruins of dinosaurs are all that remains of a man’s dream to build a free dinosaur themed mini golf course

One of the last "timber railroads" in the United States was finally abandoned in 1957.

After the nearby mercury mine shut down, this town was abandoned and declared a Superfund site.

Once the central jail for Los Angeles, this building housed inmates like Al Capone, those arrested from the Zoot Suit and Watts Riots, and individuals imprisoned for their sexuality.

Abandoned in 2009, this once popular resort destination now stands frozen in time.

This mysterious and creepy location instills a strong sense of foreboding in all visitors.

The stone walls of a home built to withstand a California wildfire still stand after more than a century.

This stately structure has been abandoned for half a century.

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate turned YouTube famous.

The remains of a deserted steamboat sit rusting beside an old ferry pier and an abandoned train platform.

An abandoned car and strange wooden debris are among the scattered remains of the old sand and gravel quarry.