Places engelhardus Wants to Go

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."

Hiding behind a grocery store is a spectacular cavern carved as part of an old limestone quarry.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.

What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.