Places ambermriley Wants to Go

On the side of a remote mountain, a stone face bearing an inscription of mysterious origin.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

Incredible sculptures inspired by obscure passages from the Bible.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.