Places DavidK Wants to Go

The Southern California pop sounds of surf and sand were born right here.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.

The quirky collection includes treasures like Elvis' underwear, Bob Barker's toothbrush, and hundreds of sock monkeys.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

It is the only marker for one of the most famous hate crimes in American history. There are no other memorials for him in the entire state.

The same security that protects our nukes accidentally protected a gentle herd of antelope.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

This is one really big nut.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.