The biker bar where a naked Arnold Schwarzenegger cracks skulls and makes off with his signature leather jacket, sunglasses, and motorcycle was known as The Corral, a rustic dive that was gutted in a 1997 fire and later demolished. Ironically, the site now houses pretty much the opposite of a biker bar: the Lake View Terrace Library.

"One of the things that was neat about it is there were levels to it, at least there was a step up," says Morris. "Everybody always liked that step up, because there was a fight sequence, [and] you could knock somebody down a level."

The T-1000 makes his first appearance beneath the now-demolished bridge and popular filming location, which is currently being replaced by a striking modern viaduct designed by Michael Maltzan. The new structure is expected to open in the very futuristic-sounding 2020.

John lives with his doomed foster parents at this run-of-the-mill Canoga Park residence, which Morris says was chosen for its "generic" feel. Still, he says the home's interior had “unique” kitchen appliances that appealed to the film's production designer, Joseph C. Nemec III.

John demonstrates his precocious hacking skills at a Van Nuys bank on Roscoe Boulevard. But not too fast, amateur location scouts: The ATM in question is no more. The building now houses a medical clinic.

The Terminators track down John Connor at "the Galleria," though the mall’s interiors were actually filmed at (the old) Santa Monica Place. Amy Heckerling previously used the shopping center for exterior shoots on Fast Times at Ridgemont High, a film whose interiors actually were shot at the (Sherman Oaks) Galleria.

The exteriors of the mall chase were filmed a full 20 miles north, at the more sprawling environs of the Northridge Fashion Center. Even for the T-1000, dodging all that Santa Monica foot traffic would have been difficult.

Fittingly, the chase sequence in the parking garage beneath Pescadero was filmed at the future site of the Petersen Automotive Museum. At the time of shooting, it was a vacant building that had once housed an Ohrbach's department store.

On their way to acquiring weapons from Enrique Salceda (Cástulo Guerra) at his remote Mexican ranch, the escaping trio stop for a bite to eat at this roadside market that appears to have closed down in the intervening years.

Sarah Connor enjoys a stunning view of the nuclear apocalypse from this Elysian Park playground.

The third-act car chase sequence was filmed on Terminal Island Freeway (a.k.a. State Route 103/47), which has been a popular filming location over the years thanks to its relative isolation from commercial and residential areas.

"That freeway is almost exclusively used for container traffic," says Morris of the freeway, of which a mile-long section is currently being dismantled. "So at night time, at that point in time, it really wasn't that busy."

T2's fiery final showdown was filmed at the enormous Kaiser Steel Plant, which at the time of production had long been abandoned. Opened in 1942 by Henry J. Kaiser to provide steel for the war effort, it closed in 1983 and was later sold to a Chinese steel company, who disassembled the plant piece by piece and shipped it to China.

"That was something that was known when we were filming there, that the Chinese [workers] were coming," says Morris, who notes the site was also used for the opening war sequence set in post-Judgment Day dystopia. "All the rubble and stuff was real," he continues. "It was like tipped over and smashed debris from the old steel mill. The steel mill that we [filmed in] was a newer, more modern [mill]."

NASCAR fans will know the site of the former steel plant as the California Speedway, which opened in 1997.

While it never made its way to the big screen, a scrapped epilogue set in an idyllic alternate future was filmed at the Los Angeles Arboretum and Botanic Garden.

The section of the park known as Bauer Lawn was an attractive location for filming, says Morris, owing to a "novel" pool/fountain located there. As the scene was actually set in Washington, D.C., the film's effects wizards inserted the U.S. Capitol and the Washington Monument in the distance, along with an assortment of gleaming "futuristic" structures.