Places lmdani09 Wants to Go

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

The famous blue house from the classic horror film "Halloween" is now a local landmark.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

This sacred space and gathering spot for the Wyandot Nation has been the surrounded by controversy and confusion.

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

Former 1954 Del Mar Train Station now serves signature cocktails and delightful culinary treats, and still operates as a Metro stop.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

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

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.