Places akhtwix Wants to Go

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

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

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

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

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.