Places We All Pod Down Here Wants to Go

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

This unique sanctuary invites you to interact with the beautiful birds.

An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

The largest Star Wars collection in the world is its own galaxy of collectibles.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

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

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.