Places lunarassault Wants to Go

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

This now-abandoned part of the original transcontinental railroad route provides a surreal driving and historical experience.

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

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.

The oldest tofu shop in the United States is a firm favorite with locals.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A crash site in the heart of polar bear territory has become a beloved local landmark.

This strangely specific landmark will let travelers know when they are half way there.

This giant fiberglass cod celebrates Madison's self-proclaimed status as the U.S. capital of lutefisk.

An abandoned fish-shaped drive-in gets a second life as a restaurant.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

A large, remote national monument highlights the typical geologic structure seen in Nevada.

This hidden, women-built-and-operated Nevada temple on Shoshone Native American land is dedicated to the Egyptian lion goddess Sekhmet among other goddesses.

An internationally-recognized dark sky sanctuary lies in northern Nevada, near the Oregon line.

Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

The self-proclaimed gateway to the Extraterrestrial Highway.

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.