Places theskadicts Wants to Go

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

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

One of California's oldest continually used high schools has an interesting history, both on and off screen.

The small family-run business has kept alive the fading art of creating beautiful handmade book covers.

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

The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

A monument to the legacy of the man who created Spongebob Squarepants at the school where his passion for art and marine biology began.

This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

One of the only known surviving coconut palm trees in the entire state.

Someone really, really wanted to save this fast-food icon from demolition.

This bronze statue commemorates the strange and beloved mascot of UC Irvine—the only university to be represented by a giant anteater.

A very tiny church, bisected by a now-dead oak tree and marooned in the middle of a shopping center parking lot.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

Fans of the spicy bright-red sauce can tour where it's made.

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

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

A shockingly detailed small scale recreation of the temples of Abu Simbel.