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Strange Geographies: East LA's Abandoned Hospital

I'm sick today. Sore throat, achy muscles, the works. You'll never guess why, so I'll just tell you: probably because I spent an unhealthy chunk of Valentine's Day location scouting (for an upcoming film shoot) at a creepy, mold-infested, long-abandoned hospital in East Los Angeles. Built in 1938 as a hospital for railroad employees (and reportedly occupied by Howard Hughes on occasion), nobody's been admitted to Linda Vista Hospital since it closed in 1990. Besides the odd ghost sighting (speciously... READ ON

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Strange Geographies: My Town's "Aborted Suburb"

Some people are seduced by strange and exotic lands abroad, and though I admit a weakness for the faraway, I also seek out surreal -- and often overlooked -- landscapes close to home. While back home in Southwest Florida for the holidays, I rediscovered a few. (After you read about this one, we'd love it if you'd share some of your own!) Rotonda Sands, the "Aborted... READ ON

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DID YOU KNOW? Marlon Brando hated memorizing lines so much that he posted cue cards everywhere to help him get through scenes. He even asked for lines to be written on an actress's posterior. (That request was denied.)