Places We All Pod Down Here Wants to Go

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

A rare surviving example of a pre-WWII Japanese garden, restored after years of neglect.

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

For roadside fast food, pull over at the giant orange.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

A cake-themed art installation tucked away in historic Chinatown.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

Pizza joint known for labor-inducing salad dressing.