Places Ruthless1040 Wants to Go

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

Outsider Art Community.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

This centuries-old pueblo church houses the body of a Franciscan friar who is said to be a rare "incorruptible" corpse.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

This mysterious petroglyph evokes the ancient swastika symbol but was later vandalized with the more troublesome Nazi one.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

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

The creator of the carousel's bingo-pinball hybrid survives in California's oldest gaming establishment.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

Suburban observatory was personal lab of the father of modern astrophysics.