This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

This jagged colossus of a building is mostly held together by an enormous concrete exoskeleton.

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

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

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

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.