Places Coddiwomple Wants to Go

A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.

An urban laboratory.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

An ode to the friendship between four Pacific Rim countries.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

This scrap yard doubles as a naive art gallery full of found art and farm animals.

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

A towering bronze statue memorializes the founding father of postwar American conservatism.

A mistaken marker makes an erroneous claim along the historic Old Divide Road.

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.

A cabinet of curious mathematical models and old calculators.

The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.

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

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

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