Places kattrewerts Wants to Go

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

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

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

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

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

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

A black and white painted wall creates an optical illusion in the California desert.

This simple highway curve has become a comedic pilgrimage site.

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

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

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

A series of labyrinths in the Nevada desert inspire meditation and calmness.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.