Places ladyferns Wants to Go

This unique tower has been home to malaria-fighting bats for 100 years.

No one is sure why this mysterious tradition started.

A unique cartoon-filled roadside attraction.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

A spur fit for a giant sits just off Highway 281 in Texas.

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

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

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

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

Spend a day hanging out with domesticated Russian foxes.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

In California, colorful roadside signs remind us all that love transcends borders.

In this roadside "community for the small," abandoned toys gain new lives.

This outdoor observatory offers stellar views and a scale model of our solar system.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.

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

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.