Places gabbya1257 Wants to Go

This small, unassuming street is now a canvas for color and creativity.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

This collection of vintage signs reflects the long and colorful history of this Arizona town.

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.

A museum and tribute to a brave profession.

Millions of years of erosion created the feature for which this rock formation is aptly named.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

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

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

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

The Milburn-Price Culture Museum in Vega offers a brand-name oversized cultural attraction.

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

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

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

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

This refurbished gas station is one of the oldest in Texas, located on the original Route 66.

This restaurant, art gallery, and nightlife hot spot is a love letter to Lagos from St. Louis.

You haven’t properly toured a winery until you’ve slept in an actual wine barrel.

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