Places nicoleeellan Wants to Go

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

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

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

The Hopi-style structure was built by the man who discovered Desert Hot Springs' famous mineral water.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

The Zalud family experienced a number of tragedies in one decade, giving rise to rumors that the 19th century house is haunted.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

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

This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.

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 ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.

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

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

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.