Places We All Pod Down Here Wants to Go

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.