Places ciffergan Wants to Go

A monument to the frontier doctor who came up with the idea of delineating highways with a painted line.

A remote desert lookout offers unparalleled views of the California badlands for those who brave the trek.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

This historic tower in the California desert promises visitors a "vortex of good vibes".

Catch a glimpse of the elusive Peninsular bighorns right off of the desert freeway.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.

A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.

The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

Erroneously called the world's tallest flagpole, this landmark is devoted to "good neighborliness."

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

This century-old painting of a portly 10-foot-tall man spent years hidden behind plaster.

A larger-than-life monument to the overlooked women who braved Western expansion and broke down societal barriers.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.