Places thecloudminder Wants to Go

Ghost hunters have fueled up at this diner for more than a century.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

Welcome to a feel-good American drugstore, in the classic sense of the term.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

A relic of roadside lore and perhaps the first of its kind in North America.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

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

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

The empty town of Scenic, South Dakota, is owned by a church in the Philippines.

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

This Nebraska museum was once the smallest courthouse in America.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

Enjoy a tour of oddities and makeshift monsters at this souvenir store with an offbeat sense of humor.

A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.

This lesser-known geographic marker was the reference point for all surveys of the continent for 75 years.

A real haunted house with an extensive history going back to 1893.

A unique blue and yellow phone booth in America's "Little Sweden."