Places JackBurban Wants to Go

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

The echoes of a railroad town that solemnly mark the end of the line.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

A mountain range on an active U.S. Navy base hides thousands of mysterious prehistoric rock carvings.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

This large pile of traveler-curated rocks by the dry lakebed is a longstanding tradition on the Old Mojave Road.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

This huge dam across the Colorado River caused an armed standoff between two U.S. states.

Some 10,000 works of ancient rock art cover these volcanic basalt outcrops near the Gila River.

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.