Places eharjes Wants to Go

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

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A vibrant colony of rescued wolves and other canids.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.

This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.

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

Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

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

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

Home to a giant switchblade and one of the world's largest collections of pocket knives, this museum is a cut above the rest.

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

This Garden District mansion was built to be bigger and grander than its original owner's former partner turned rival.

Come for the 14-foot-long taxidermy alligator. Stay for the mini costumed gators shooting pool.

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.

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