Places CLed1024 Wants to Go

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

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

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

Giant steel and concrete dinosaurs near Route 66 invite passerbys into a mineral shop.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

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