Places Debby Morris Wants to Go

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

This 24-acre park offers a place for meditation in the midst of Sedona's iconic red rocks.

This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.

This small museum is dedicated to the study of coprolites, or fossilized poop.

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

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

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

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

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

A land of debatable treasure.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

Once a famous outpost for purchasing saddles and spurs, this museum preserves the art, craft, and style of the American cowboy.

This enormous fiberglass cow near Death Valley National Park once graced a casino roof in Las Vegas.

Unopened beer cans are left at this monument to honor the Navy men who lost their lives during a training mission.

Welcome to a feel-good American drugstore, in the classic sense of the term.

Once a staging site for World War II munitions.

The gambling entrepreneur who built a city was also an avid collector of classic cars.

The largest recovered section of Titanic sits in a hotel in Las Vegas.