Places desertrider1966 Wants to Go

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

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

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

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

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

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

The American rainmaker and a burst dam.

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

In California, colorful roadside signs remind us all that love transcends borders.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

The final resting place of the songwriter who penned “Take Me Out To The Ball Game."