Places Lillyflowers Wants to Go

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

An unusual double cinder cone with a bent oval crater, in the Lunar Crater Volcanic Field.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

In the middle of a desert subdivision, there is supposedly an impact crater site from Kcymaerxthaereal times.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

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

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

The remnants of an early automobile route across shifting sand dunes can still be found in the deserts of Southern California.

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

The original movie set for the home of 'Star Wars' hero Luke Skywalker.

A small space-exploration exhibit hidden in a hotel.

Colorful sedimentary rock layers provide opportunities both for hiking and photography.

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

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

A collection of anti-communist sculptures stands watch in the Mojave Desert.

A relic of the Cold War in Chicago.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

Built for television, this statue now serves as an unlikely memorial to a fireman who died on 9/11.

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

The 32nd president's sprawling cottage sits on an island enclave jointly managed by the U.S. and Canada.

A quarter mile off the coastal tip of Maine you'll find the "Beloved Island" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

This waterfront museum in Maine is dedicated to the history of the smoked-herring trade.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.