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j3taylor

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2017

Just some guy who likes to travel, wander, and look for odd experiences. While I'm currently located in Cave Creek AZ... I get out of the states at least twice a year for work turned into vacations. It's amazing how many places I can check off, based on "latest places" that I've already been to

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My Travel Interests

  • Abandoned & Ruined
  • Death & the Dark
  • Museums & Collections
  • Nature & Outdoors

My Location Interests

  • Las Vegas
  • Los Angeles
  • Portland
  • San Diego

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Bradley in the shop
Permanently Closed

Santa Monica, California

Church of Type

Somewhere between an art studio and a print shop, this artists storefront is a house of worship devoted to type.

Dennis Hopper Mural
Permanently Closed

Los Angeles, California

Dennis Hopper Mural

A tribute to long time Venice Beach resident, artist and actor Dennis Hopper.

The Happy Foot/Sad Foot Sign
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Los Angeles, California

The Happy Foot/Sad Foot Sign

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.

Giant Scissors
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Los Angeles, California

Giant Scissors

Giant scissors seemingly stabbed into the side of a hair salon leave no question about the vocation of the owners.

Ventura Oil Refinery. (tunnelbug/Flickr)
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Ventura, California

Ventura Oil Refinery

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

Cajon Pass on Route 66 (Flickr/JoulesVintage)
Permanently Closed

Hesperia, California

Summit Inn Restaurant

The last Americana on Route 66.

Solar Two Power Tower
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Daggett, California

Solar One and Solar Two

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

Farmacia Y Botanica Million Dollar
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Los Angeles, California

Farmacia Y Botanica Million Dollar

Once a purveyor of Santeria supplies, religious products , and household sundries, now closed.

Salton Sea History Museum
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Mecca, California

Salton Sea History Museum

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

Youngwood Court
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Los Angeles, California

Youngwood Court

Iconic Los Angeles residence famous for its 19 statues of Michelangelo's David.

Synchronicity Space
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Los Angeles, California

Synchronicity Space

An enchanted arts space which assumes infinite identities.

A close up view of Curves and Zigzags at a sharp angle
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Palm Desert, California

Curves and Zigzags

A black and white painted wall creates an optical illusion in the California desert.

Caine's Arcade
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Los Angeles, California

Caine's Arcade

A 9 year-old boy’s elaborate cardboard arcade in his father’s used auto parts store.

You can't miss it.
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Landers, California

The Dream Wanderer

Mediums from a psychic utopian community lead a trippy VR journey on a parked desert bus.

Don the Beachcomber interior.
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Huntington Beach, California

Don The Beachcomber

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

outside new main entrance (west side of building)

Los Angeles, California

Marciano Art Foundation

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

Institute For Figuring
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Los Angeles, California

Institute For Figuring

This hands-on math museum believes in turning concepts into constructs.

The Southern California Medical Museum
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Pomona, California

The Southern California Medical Museum

A small medical museum with a recreated doctor's office.

The Mojave phone booth.

San Bernardino County, California

Mojave Phone Booth

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

Los Angeles, California

Venice Beach Freakshow

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

Bernie vs. Hillary unicorns, jousting eternal in velvet
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Los Angeles, California

Velveteria

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

Mae West's falsies.
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Los Angeles, California

Dearly Departed Museum

A macabre tour of Hollywood’s deadly history.

Pinball into infinity.
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Banning, California

The Museum of Pinball

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

The Chandelier Tree.
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Los Angeles, California

Chandelier Tree

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

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