Places VeeP916 Wants to Go

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

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

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

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

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

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

This constitutionally sound Muffler Man harkens back to the days these attractions were a must-see.

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

A mesmerizing disco ball-like sculpture along the Sacramento River Walk.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

One of the best places to dig—some say on the planet—for six different types of chalcedony.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

Under the right conditions, rocks will move across this dry lakebed, leaving trails behind them.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.