Places Dr Do Wants to Go

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

This lighthouse has been guiding shipping into the Golden Gate since before the American Civil War.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

A student driver's nightmare.

Sculptor Antony Gormley used chaos theory and fractal growth to design his tallest creation.

This sculpture of a pylon is upside down and askew, as if its main purpose is to confuse passersby.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

This short-lived tea and silk farm is believed to be the first permanent Japanese settlement in North America.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

At this Nashville restaurant, cheese and charcuterie arrive via conveyor belt.

A unique rock formation that only a few have managed to venture inside.

This impressive ledge seems to float above the Upper Buffalo Wilderness.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.