Places We All Pod Down Here Wants to Go

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

The largest drain hole in the world.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.