Places SomePlaceCool Wants to Go

The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove.

Tucked away behind an unassuming set of shops is a must-see series of stunning murals.

If Myrtle Beach is the mini golf capital of the world, this is its crowning glory.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

Feast on award-winning birria tacos from a food truck inside this neon robo-tiki bar.

An ancient cave system in Tennessee’s Appalachian foothills converted to a 1,200-person music venue.

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.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Two geoglyphs that are truly unique to North America.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.

Loyal fans of one television's most famous painters still come to pay their respects.

This steep-walled ravine contains animal-shaped formations made from sandstone.

This unique landscape is the only place in the world to dig for hourglass-selenite crystals.

This Stonehenge-inspired solar calendar stands alongside a landfill, in the middle of the Nevada desert.

A well-preserved example from a 1920s network of airmail navigation arrows sits near Interstate 15 in southern Nevada.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

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

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

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

A mine in the Sierra Nevada that produced nothing but barren quartz.

An iron monument on the 120th meridian as surveyed, one of only four marking the boundary between Nevada and California north of Lake Tahoe.