Places tonkazee Wants to Go

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

A replica that won't float away.

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

This quiet chapel was central to a community of settlers who reclaimed an abandoned fort.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

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

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

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