Places jakechouston Wants to Go

House used in the 1971 horror film "Let's Scare Jessica to Death."

This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

This Southern Californian Conservation Center is home to singing and howling apes.

The home of one of California's most important horticulturalists wilts amidst a lovely park.

This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

Condemned US Navy seaplane control tower turned officers’ club sits atop Yerba Buena Island.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.