Places We All Pod Down Here Wants to Go

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

No one’s quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

The house where Good Will Hunting was written is a surreal fairytale abode.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

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

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."