Places sparkleybits Wants to Go

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Outsider Art Community.

Every year, festive decorations appear on this juniper tree located in the median strip of a busy highway.

Inside this store, a mysterious statue draws visitors from the world over.

A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.

This scrap yard doubles as a naive art gallery full of found art and farm animals.

The largest copper mine in Arizona, this enormous open pit emerges from the hills like an alien landscape.

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

One of the largest open-pit copper mining operations in the entire country.