Places tommimeckley2 Wants to Go

The U.S. Air Force has an anti-satellite laser weapon.

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

A sculpture of a flying hawk made from colorful car doors.

The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

At this research institute, the chile is king.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

The building stands within a quiet, postcard-perfect New Mexico village.

The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.

A somber monument commemorates the site of a Native American reservation marked by suffering.

In 1967, murder and mayhem disrupted the tranquility along this quiet stretch of Old Route 66.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

Secret Swing.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

Soaring over the Niagara Whirlpool since 1916.

Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.

A school teacher's massive and terrifying self-built castle.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

Lake within a lake.

This inexpensive lodging house was once a prison notorious for its inhumane practices.

These strikingly barren, rolling red hills were caused by bad farming practices.