Places sarahvjanet Wants to Go

An old abandoned pharmacy building in Texas is brimming with collectibles and images of the little tuxedoed pooch.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

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

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

A famous flea market artist's studio that's full of odds and ends.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

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

This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.