Places Crankstrap Wants to Go

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

Where a young athlete began his run across Canada after losing his right leg to cancer.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

No one is exactly sure why over a hundred lakes have formed amongst the tallest sand dunes on Earth.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

The tallest stationary dunes on Earth also happen to sing.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

One of the largest ancient geoglyphs in the world is a tall desert god used for predicting the weather.