Places Beth1116 Wants to Go

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

A giant mascot, a car bomb, and the mafia mingle in the history of a defunct restaurant chain.

The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

More than 25 fully functional scale replicas of famous lighthouses dot the shores of Lake Havasu.

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

Two geoglyphs that are truly unique to North America.

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

A small canyon with petroglyphs and a seasonal waterfall, only a short hike from the remnants of old Route 66.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

A mass grave for victims of an airline disaster that led to much-needed safety improvements for commercial flights.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

Petroglyphs, bird watching, and a 100-year-old Ranch in one location.

Apparently, the whole cosmos emanates from this plain concrete tower.

From a T-rex to a teapot, a cast of artificial fossils illustrates New Mexico's history.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

It's easy to see why this eclectic architectural wonder has been dubbed the "Spaceship House."

This refurbished gas station is one of the oldest in Texas, located on the original Route 66.

The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.

Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."