Places paleasfunk Wants to Go

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

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

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

Modern design and unusual architecture make this mountaintop temple no ordinary Buddhist retreat.

A literally moving statue of stacked metal giants just continually trying (and failing) to find love.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

Disney World's very first waterpark is now an abandoned ruin being reclaimed by the swamp.

The only runway directly into the magic kingdom has been closed since 1972, but it still sings to you if you drive fast enough.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

A Studio on the Fringes of the Northeast Art District.

The remains of a World War II munitions factory still haunt the fields of this Twin Cities suburb.