One of California’s largest cities is also its emptiest.
California City, California, isn’t exactly a ghost town, but it comes pretty damn close. At just over 200 square miles–nearly as big as Chicago–it’s the third largest city in the Golden State by land size. Its population? A meager 14,000. But while it lacks people, it does have mile after mile of planned, parceled out, and completely undeveloped land. It’s a veritable skeleton of a metropolis that never materialized.