Places petiterenard Wants to Go

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

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

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

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

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

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

This temple contains what might be the world's oldest optical illusion.

In the Scottish Highlands, this 13th-century castle ruin is hidden at the end of a farm track.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

This concrete sculpture features a woman opening her heart to showcase a beautiful fern.

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Where the famed daredevil attempted to launch himself across a canyon in a custom-built rocket.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

A curious art park at the geographic center of Europe is home to 3,000 television sets and other wonders.