Mecca, California
Salton Sea
The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Titusville, Florida
NASA Vehicle Assembly Building
A building so large that it has its own weather.
Dearborn, Michigan
Edison's Last Breath
A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.
Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth Water Gardens
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
Lee Vining, California
Mono Lake
Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.
La Cañada Flintridge, California
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.
Inyo County, California
Scotty's Castle
An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.
Mitchell, South Dakota
The Corn Palace
A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.
Cabazon, California
Cabazon Dinosaurs
The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.
Terlingua, Texas
Lajitas Ghost Town
Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.
Terlingua, Texas
Terlingua Ghost Town
An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.
Los Angeles, California
Galco's Soda Pop Stop
Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.
Wall, South Dakota
Wall Drug
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
Inyo County, California
Devils Golf Course Landscape
"Only the devil could play golf here."
Riverside, California
Tio's Tacos
Mexican food and folk art.
