Places margotgabel Wants to Go

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

Inspiring Earthlings to Boldly Go.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

Some of the most unusual (and in some cases, disgusting) flavors of soda imaginable.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.

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

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.