Places guthriebruce Wants to Go

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

"May the force be with you always."

A replica that won't float away.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

A memorial to the unknown and unheralded men and women of the Cold War military and intelligence services.

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

On Hilton Head Island this bronze King of the Sea rules all things briny—and lets you know if you’re late for lunch.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

North America's oldest authentic African Village.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

The Louisiana sandwich shop that served Bonnie and Clyde's last meal is a museum that chronicles the criminal couple and honors the Bienville Parish lawmen who stopped their crime spree in an ambush.