Places VannyMcVanVan Wants to Go

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

The ruins of this abandoned fort now stand as a picturesque reminder of America's march West.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

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

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

Erroneously called the world's tallest flagpole, this landmark is devoted to "good neighborliness."

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

The remnants of an early automobile route across shifting sand dunes can still be found in the deserts of Southern California.

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

Some 10,000 works of ancient rock art cover these volcanic basalt outcrops near the Gila River.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

A stone pillar marking the location of the westernmost battle of the American Civil War only honors one side of the conflict.

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

An amazing collection of model trains, collectibles, and artifacts that span the last 100 years.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.