Places skyemahaffie Wants to Go

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

This huge dam across the Colorado River caused an armed standoff between two U.S. states.

More than 25 fully functional scale replicas of famous lighthouses dot the shores of Lake Havasu.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.

A series of labyrinths in the Nevada desert inspire meditation and calmness.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

A memorial to the firefighters who died in an industrial disaster is housed in a small public park.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

A tribute to the statues of Easter Island along Route 66.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

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

The first steel dam in the world and the only one still functional in the United States.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

Crafted in 1911, this steam locomotive spent its entire working life in Flagstaff.

A replica of the flagpole that gave a frontier town its name.

An important piece of history from mankind's journey to the moon sits in the lobby of a government science lab.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

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

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."