Places bashinate Wants to Go

The Grand Canyon’s original airport, which once welcomed pilots like Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh, lies abandoned.

This Native American settlement dates back to the Pueblo II period.

The lost ruins of the forgotten ferry lie hidden beneath the silt.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

This huge dam across the Colorado River caused an armed standoff between two U.S. states.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

The only mine for rare earth elements in the United States has been intermittently active since the 1950s.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

No one’s quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

Two geoglyphs that are truly unique to North America.

Built as a schoolhouse in 1914, this Mission-style building has also served as a dancehall, a library, an Army canteen, and now a cultural museum.

An improbable set of attractive limestone caverns forms the centerpiece of Providence Mountains State Recreation Area, in the heart of the Mojave Desert.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.