Photographer Kevin Lacy of Long Beach has a fascination with abandoned places. Growing up in Buffalo, New York, the obsession began with forgotten grain silos and dilapidated factories.

“If I drove past an abandoned place on the side of the road, I had the desire -- always -- to stop and check it out,” Lacy said.

Since moving to the West Coast about 10 years ago and founding The Abandoned Project, Lacy has criss-crossed California getting shots of some of the most secret and hard-to-reach places that lay in beautiful decay.

“I think everybody -- at least some part of them -- has a little bit of morbid curiosity [about] these places... It’s the same thing with people loving zombie movies,” Lacy told LAist.

This year Lacy released a book of his travels in the California desert that c

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