Places tyler Wants to Go

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

For 60 years, skiers have calmed their nerves with cocktails hidden along these slopes.

Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.

This towering volcanic plug stands out among the dramatic formations that dot this otherworldly desert valley.

Buried beneath the New Mexico sands are believed to be millions of copies of Atari's E.T. video game.

In a largely deserted ghost town, a little brick building recalls its history as a gold rush hub and haven for outlaws.

A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

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

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

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

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

The crumbling remains of the first Black-owned and operated hospital in Kansas City.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

This grave marks one of few bodies retrieved from the disastrous Franklin Arctic expedition.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

Russian spa's bronze monument to enemas.

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

An abandoned football stadium with a tragic past.

A simple stone remembers one of the most menacing horses in the Swedish military.

What looks like a birch tree smushed between two pieces of glass often confounds commuters.