Places lisavaca Wants to Go

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

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

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

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.

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

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

Built by one man in the '20s, this site is now a museum representing the Great Basin cultures.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

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

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

Etched into a dry lake bed, this massive directional indicator is accurate without magnets.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

One of the largest open-pit copper mining operations in the entire country.

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

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.

One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.