San Francisco, California
Paxton Gate
A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.
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San Francisco, California
A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.
Los Angeles, California
Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.
San Francisco, California
A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.
Los Angeles, California
A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.
San Francisco, California
Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.
San Francisco, California
A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.
Los Angeles, California
Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.
Los Angeles, California
Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.
Mecca, California
The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.
Los Angeles, California
Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.
Los Angeles, California
Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.
Los Angeles, California
The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.
Los Angeles, California
Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.
Los Angeles, California
World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.
Los Angeles, California
Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Klamath Falls, Oregon
This hotel has hardly changed in over a century, like a time capsule of old Oregon.
Mitchell, Oregon
Make it an offering.
Jacksonville, Oregon
Sasqu(w)atch out!
Dufur, Oregon
The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.
Hillsboro, Oregon
A midcentury ranch house hides a literal treasure trove of unique rocks and minerals.
Portland, Oregon
This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.
Portland, Oregon
Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.
Portland, Oregon
Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.