Places lephamtuyetnhi1 Wants to Go

A tribute to the statues of Easter Island along Route 66.

A $100,000 tumbleweed decorates an Arizona park and ride that got its priorities a bit tangled.

Once a year, at exactly 11:11 a.m., this monument comes to life.

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

What is the Thing?

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This water goblin statue represents a 19th-century urban legend about a haunted canal that became a Japanese idiom.

Rubbing salt on this small stone dog is said to make wishes come true.

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

This adorable birdlike police box is designed based on a play on words.