Does anyone else like to travel to abandoned places?

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Occasionally, my wife and I enjoy doing this. They're usually fascinating, especially if there is a history attached with the place.

Recently, we traveled to the Santa Susana Pass in southern California. While the area is infamous for the Spahn movie ranch where the Manson family resided in the late 1960s, there is another movie ranch that we visited: Corriganville. This ranch named after western actor/stuntman/Man in a Gorilla suit actor Ray Corrigan, was open to the public as an amusement park from May 1, 1949 until 1966 when Bob Hope closed the ranch.

We've written more about it on our blog and also shot a few videos of the area. Here's the first one: