Places sarahltait Wants to Go

A time-capsule monument reminding future generations of the importance of efficient and effective use of natural resources.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

The top of a giant mesa, just outside of Amarillo, appears to float in the sky above.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

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

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

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

A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.

Huge spherical rocks in the middle of the prairie.

In Northeastern Iceland lies something of an oxymoron: a steaming desert.

The bright red stripes streaking across the rocks are the star feature at this Icelandic waterfall.

This natural wonderland is a unique chance to explore a Carolina bay, a mysterious geological formation of unknown origin.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

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

The wreckage of a deadly bomber plane crash can still be found near an Arizona peak.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.