Places engelhardus Wants to Go

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

Built by one man in the '20s, this site is now a museum representing the Great Basin cultures.

The "Kill Bill Church" was transformed into a place of worship after a long Hollywood history.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Formerly frequented by Hollywood stars and now open for tours.

The first steel dam in the world and the only one still functional in the United States.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

This hidden stone has absorbed decades of human anxiety.

Unruly residents were housed in this one-person cell until the Black Maria arrived.

Proceeds from this colorful teahouse in a historic Atlanta neighborhood directly fund women’s education in northeast India.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

This landmark church at the Flathead Reservation mission features 58 ceiling and wall frescoes painted by the mission's cook.

The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of the Navajo Nation.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

This mostly abandoned shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.

At the base of the Spring Mountains, a unique nursery packed with desert plants.

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

The remains of a boarding school designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children.

A tribute to the statues of Easter Island along Route 66.

A series of labyrinths in the Nevada desert inspire meditation and calmness.

Two geoglyphs that are truly unique to North America.

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

Thousands of glyphs created by an unknown culture decorate the rock formations of this canyon.