Places ladyferns Wants to Go

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Originally built as a promotional giveaway, this suburban house was designed to be an IRL version of the Simpson home.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

A tribute to the statues of Easter Island along Route 66.

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

The first steel dam in the world and the only one still functional in the United States.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

Petroglyphs, bird watching, and a 100-year-old Ranch in one location.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

In 1975, a forestry worker in Arizona claimed to have been abducted by a UFO.

Victims of the Webster Massacre are buried here in a mass grave.

A community-funded monument to kindness in the face of life's difficulties.

A tower that pays homage to local sailors who perished under the waves.

"They died with their boots on."