Places Edited by backroads66

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

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

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

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

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.