Places peapodpr Wants to Go

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

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

Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.

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

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

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

This old-fashioned roadhouse's quirky neon sign is as famous as its enormous dumplings.

Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

After the musical legend's death, his memorial was mysteriously graffitied in gold.

Home to a vast collection of The Wizard of Oz memorabilia and the site of an infamous theft.

Terraced flowerbeds and rock sculptures in the midst of the Minnesota wilderness.

Dakota legend claims this locally iconic pinnacle was once part of a sacred burial site that was cleaved in two.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

This kaleidoscopic mural shows Bob Dylan throughout his transition from young troubadour to Nobel laureate.