Places limikoleit Wants to Go

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

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

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

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

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

This outsider art paradise is filled with dinosaur sculptures crafted from recycled machinery.

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

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

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

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

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

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.

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

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.