Places We All Pod Down Here Wants to Go

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

Because there's no place like home.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

From sax to spuds, get 'em all at this landmark music establishment.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

A master of deception, Harry Houdini's greatest trick may have been living in two places at once.

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.