Places We All Pod Down Here Wants to Go

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

360-degree virtual reality chamber physically immerses scientists into their data.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.