Places ComradeChocobo Wants to Go

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

A collection of obscure and vintage equipment used for television, film, and radio.

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

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

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

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

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

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

What is the Thing?

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

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

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

Despite a recent paint job, the factory still sits empty.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

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