Places We All Pod Down Here Wants to Go

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

A fashion designer's dazzling world of Japanese collectibles is hidden in a warehouse downtown.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

Mexican food and folk art.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.