Places cconway7 Wants to Go

This small town was built around a marble quarry and named after one of the most famous sources of marble in the world.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

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

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

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

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

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

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

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

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

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

The echoes of a railroad town that solemnly mark the end of the line.