Places heatherrowephr Wants to Go

Old car parts and assorted materials get turned into one man's mechanical treasures on the side streets of Cleveland.

Acres of English cottage gardens, unexpectedly nestled in a Cleveland suburb.

A slab of sandstone covered with mysterious 1,000-year-old rock carvings from a vanished North American culture.

Unique collection containing a wide and curious range of contraceptive items.

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

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

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

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

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 historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Remnants of a town from a bygone era.

This remote river crossing was a popular campground on American westward expansion trails, and a former Pony Express station.

Locally known as the "Onion” and the "Egg Beater,” Casper’s most recognizable buildings are beloved local landmarks to many, and eyesores to others.

You can dig for your own 52-million-year-old fish fossils.

This rural museum highlights Wyoming's era of trapping and fur trades, and hosts the annual Green River Rendezvous in July.

This archaeological dig site and museum is home to one of the largest dinosaur fossil collections in the world.

One of America's largest retail chains got its start in one of its most remote rural destinations.

Cabins once lived in by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are featured at this Old West living history museum.