Places lettucebfriends Wants to Go

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

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

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

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

Despite a recent paint job, the factory still sits empty.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

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

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

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

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

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

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

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A city park that once housed live spider monkeys and today features a working miniature train.

Striking natural chalk bluffs that rise dramatically along the Tombigbee River.

A statue in Enterprise, Alabama hailing the fast food giant Ronald McDonald, stylized as a boll weevil.

A fascinating museum near the birthplace of the greatest track and field athlete of all time.