R.I.P. Robert Winter, LA Architecture's "Bungalow Bob" (1924-2019) Sometimes it's kismet when people come into your life by surprise. I've tried to meet many a star of stage, screen, and song, and ...

Photo Essay: These Towers That Bend, But Never Break Photo: Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Visiting Watts Towers was one of t...

Meet Simon, The Red Fox of the Radioactive Red Forest "Is he tame?" I'd just gotten back from my trip to Ukraine, and I was excited to tell my friends about the red fox I'd...

Memories of the Blue Train Hidden Inside Bloomingdale's NYC I shudder to think about all the things in New York City I missed out on despite living there for 14 years. Photo: Circa 2007, by Coolca...

Photo Essay: Lanterman Developmental Center, Pomona, Haunted & Closing "I wonder what kind of state this place will be in, in five years," I said pessimistically as I wandered through the quiet neighbo...

Photo Essay: Rancho Los Amigos, Abandoned County Poor Farm, Downey (Exterior—Updated for 2018) [Last Updated 8/18/18 7:34 PM PT] I was excited enough to wander around the exterior and peek inside Linda Vista Hospital , a relatively ...

Photo Essay: Top Posts of 2018 I always tell people that I write because I must. I try not to write what I think other people will like; I just have to get out whatever...

Photo Essay: Boron Air Force Station / Boron Federal Prison, Abandoned (Mostly) Even though I do quite a bit of urban exploration, I generally try to avoid trespassing – at least, noticeably trespassing, in populated are...

Photo Essay: A Double Dinosaur Climb, In Claude Bell's Prehistoric Garden When dinosaurs were still alive—some 70 or 80 million years ago—California was still underwater. The ancient sea may have been shallow—a...