Places Robin Babb Wants to Go

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

A ghost town revived by hippies and wanderers throws its own special brand of holiday parade.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

Deadly airliner crash preserved for those willing to climb and pay respects.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.