Places jennieodee Wants to Go

This conservation area is also home to many of the region's desert tortoises.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

This bright and bubbly Palm Springs hotel was the brainchild of an iconic drag queen.

This general store offers visitors a glimpse back into the 1930s.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

Catch a glimpse of the elusive Peninsular bighorns right off of the desert freeway.

This historic tower in the California desert promises visitors a "vortex of good vibes".

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

A unique gallery filled with art that is interactive, accessible, and generates a ripple effect of creativity

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

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A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

A short interpretive trail about one of the first human cultures in North America.

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

Some of the Old West's most notorious outlaws frequented this mining town.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

A 6,888-carat piece of turquoise that bears a striking resemblance to the first President of the United States.