Places Mark Sommer Wants to Go

Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."

The ruins of this abandoned fort now stand as a picturesque reminder of America's march West.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

A giant "X" symbolizes the blood spilled from the brutal Juárez drug wars.

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.

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

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

Outsider Art Community.

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

A bomb shelter and some fireplaces are all that remain of the house Fred Roberts tried so hard to keep standing.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.