Places Joe Wants to Go

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

This unique art installation used boiler tubes from a decommissioned power plant to resemble Antelope Canyon.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

Archaeologists believe this panel of petroglyphs depicting descending sheep and other figures in Glen Canyon are 3,000 to 6,000 years old.

When it was built in 1929, this historic bridge was the only place to cross the Colorado River for 600 miles.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

The Grand Canyon’s original airport, which once welcomed pilots like Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh, lies abandoned.

This small interfaith chapel lies not far from the rim of the Grand Canyon.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

Opened in 1947, this is the oldest continuously-operating drive-in theater in New York.

A near tragic event on this bridge helped inspire the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."

What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.

This statue commemorates the meeting of the most influential minds of the women’s rights movement.

Intricate metal sculpture that's half gothic cathedral, half construction equipment.

One of the world’s most powerful corporations was established on a random Albuquerque street corner.

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.

The remains of a failed subway in upstate New York is now an underground graffiti bunker.

Like your grandma's attic—if your grandma were a little weirder, extremely well-traveled, and had a great eye for art.

This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.

Asheville, North Carolina, was the the second place in the world to enjoy Kentucky Fried Chicken's secret recipe.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.