This biker-beloved institution along the scenic Angeles Crest Highway has been described as a “rustic roadhouse” by the Los Angeles Times, so it’s not hard to see why it was chosen as the site of Big Ed’s Gas Farm after the pilot episode. Twin Peaks Season 2 location manager Barry Gremillion praises the restaurant for its “old-fashioned” allure, saying: “It can be anything. Gas station, roadhouse, bar…” Heck, maybe even a drape store.

This striking, oft-filmed “textile block” home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright was the location used for Invitation to Love, the soap-within-a-soap that often mirrored the plot twists happening in the town of Twin Peaks. With its theatrical granite architecture and sweeping views of the LA basin, it’s the perfect backdrop for over-the-top melodrama.

The doomed Laura Palmer was laid to rest at this suburban cemetery—fitting, given what Gremillion termed a “woodsy,” “very Twin Peaksy” vibe. The cemetery was used later on in the series, but locals eventually made things so difficult that the production began to second-guess the location altogether. “The people that you had to go through to film there were difficult to deal with,” Gremillion says. “So we kinda backed away from it, cause they just made it kind of impossible.”

The appropriately-rustic and isolated Mulholland Highway haunt and its adjacent barn (now a wine-tasting room) doubled for the Book House, the headquarters of the secret society charged with warding off evil supernatural forces in Twin Peaks.

“We filmed all around the exterior,” says Gremillion, who noted that the restaurant has changed quite a bit since the early ’90s. “It wasn’t anything like it is now, which is a very well-organized, very well-run and very hip place.”

There are many, many donuts in the Twin Peaks sheriff’s station, but nary a scene taking place inside an actual donut shop—at least none that made the final cut. While a scene filmed in the old-timey (now closed) Monrovia Bakery was snipped from the series’ second episode on its original airing, those who own the Twin Peaks Gold Box DVD set can see it in all its glory as a deleted scene.

If you’re searching for excitement and intrigue, look no further than the…uh, Burbank Department of Water and Power. It is here, after all, where Jacques Renault was ambushed, shot, and arrested by the Twin Peaks Sheriff’s Department in the Season 1 episode entitled “Bite the Bullet, Baby.”

Along with Malibou Lake Mountain Club, Franklin Canyon Park served as one of the production’s major hubs for exterior shooting—particularly those taking place in the spooky woods around Twin Peaks. Among other things, it is home to Glastonbury Grove, the forest clearing where unlucky visitors enter the hellish Black Lodge.

Gremillion had a real-life brush with danger there one night when, after being tasked with quieting down a group of partying teenagers during filming, he and a P.A. were attacked with rocks, bottles and fists. Upon learning of the incident, Lynch responded pretty much the way you’d expect him to by exclaiming: “Golly gee, that sounds terrible!’”

The ever-popular Bronson Caves—the site of the original Batcave—have been used by countless productions over the years, including John Ford’s The Searchers, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and various Star Trek productions. In Twin Peaks, they doubled for Owl Cave, where Deputy Andy inadvertently discovers the map that leads Cooper and company to Glastonbury Grove.

This Simi Valley watering hole has been closed for several years now, but the Old West-style facade that doubled for Wallie’s Hideout—the bar where James first meets the wealthy and mysterious Evelyn Marsh—remains. If you’re looking to make a day out of it, a nearby location is similarly rich in Hollywood history.

“Right around the corner from the Cantina is an entire film complex hidden back by the old Corriganville Park,” Gremillion pointed out. Indeed, the park he refers to is the site of the old Corriganville Movie Ranch, though film buffs should note that only the foundations of the original structures remain

Audrey Horne came close to joining the Mile High Club during a scene filmed at this small Pacoima airport, in which the teenage misfit loses her virginity to her departing lover Jack.

“We filmed a lot in the ruins,” says Gremillion, of the old Sylmar hospital, which was heavily damaged in the 1971 San Fernando earthquake and eventually demolished. Most prominently, a dilapidated shack on the property doubled for Dead Dog Farm, a hub of illegal activity where Cooper kills Jean Renault in a gun battle in the Season 2 episode “Checkmate.” Amazingly, some of the ruins remain in a lot adjacent to the rebuilt hospital, which opened its doors in 1987.

It’s somewhat surprising that this small city park near Whiteman Airport doubled for the forests of northern Washington, but, according to Gremillion, the decision was merely a practical one. “We wouldn’t go there unless we had a day at the airport,” he says. “Scenes that were exterior wooded scenes that we needed to fit in without traveling all the way from there to Franklin Canyon.”

The South Dakota motel where Darya (Nicole LaLiberte) meets her untimely end at the hands of Mr. C, a.k.a. Evil Dale Cooper, is in fact the Four Aces Movie Ranch in Palmdale, described on its official website as a “classic Americana road stop set” that also features a diner, gas station and bar/casino. With its rich wood paneling and middle-of-nowhere feel, it’s a location perfectly suited to noir-drenched murder and mayhem. Sadly for us lay-folk, the charmingly-moody rooms are strictly reserved for Hollywood production purposes and not open to the general public.

School principal/double-murder suspect Bill Hastings’ (Matthew Lillard) cozy South Dakota home is actually located in Altadena, whose leafy streets nicely double for more verdant regions of the country. Unfortunately for Bill, the house's deep front lawn and lengthy brick walkway make it an especially long and torturous journey from porch to police car.

Palmdale is the home of fictional tract development Rancho Rosa, where Dale Cooper doppelganger Dougie Jones is swapped out for his lookalike in nauseating fashion. The anonymous, ticky-tacky neighborhood's banal aesthetic somehow makes Cooper’s bizarre reappearance feel even more disorienting.

A number of LA locations stand in for South Dakota in the new episodes, including this small Lancaster airport and its adjacent restaurant Foxy's Landing. Gordon Cole (Lynch), Albert Rosenfield (Miguel Ferrer) and Cole's new partner Tamara Preston (Chrysta Bell) arrive at (and later depart from) this desolate airstrip during their trip to meet Mr. C, Dale Cooper's evil double.

Albert Rosenfield (Miguel Ferrer) uncovers the mysterious Diane (Laura Dern) at this downtown institution, which stands in for a Philadelphia bar named Max Von's in Episode 6. Now I guess we know where she's been hiding all these years ...

We first meet ice-pick-wielding assassin Ike "The Spike" Stadtler (Christophe Zajac-Denek) at this Thai Town motel that stands in for a Vegas motor lodge. Literally nothing about this place screams "luxury"—but Ike isn't there for the ambiance.

Before you race over to this office park for a photo op with that stoic cowboy statue, you should know that it was created specifically for the series and no longer resides there. Ditto the nearby art installation that looks like a giant soft-serve sundae, which was apparently draped over a more mundane metal sculpture.