Places Dmitri Strelnikov Wants to Go

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

Mine your own precious stones.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

The Wonder Road aka Doobie Lane, a mile-long strip of dirt road filled with folk art.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

One of the most remote spots in America and the first protected wilderness area in Nevada, named after an old legend.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

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

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

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

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.

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

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.