Places lillicay Wants to Go

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

This large pile of traveler-curated rocks by the dry lakebed is a longstanding tradition on the Old Mojave Road.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

Artist Jack Pierson made this surreal sculpture in honor of Wonder Valley, a countercultural community on edge of civilization.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.

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

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

What began as an illegal art installation has become a symbol for unity, ocean awareness, and coastline preservation.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."