Places Sarah Jones Wants to Go

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

Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.

American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

The top of a giant mesa, just outside of Amarillo, appears to float in the sky above.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

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

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

The Andean town where every single building is decorated with a brightly colored frieze.

A scenic ravine with an astounding collection of rock art created by the Indigenous people of the Great Plains.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A collection of intricate sculptures so small they have to be seen through a microscope.

The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.