Places JROD Wants to Go

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

The Wonder Road aka Doobie Lane, a mile-long strip of dirt road filled with folk art.

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!

This famous Nevada gold mine, once a hotbed of Wild West shenanigans, is now open for tours.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

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

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

A homage to the King at the hotel where he revived his career.