Places VRLNDR Wants to Go

A giant mascot, a car bomb, and the mafia mingle in the history of a defunct restaurant chain.

This 1930s log cabin began as a taxidermy museum but is now a popular country music venue.

A tribute to the statues of Easter Island along Route 66.

An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.

The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of the Navajo Nation.

Opinions differ as to whether this Arizona tree was actually used as a Wild West jail, but that hasn't stopped the town from capitalizing on it.

This remote desert watering hole has a connection to a curious chapter of American history.

Although now a decaying ruin, this stone cabin's history includes several notable figures.

The state's only comprehensive museum dedicated to the mineral that defined its history and economy.

The remote resting place of a notorious Wild West outlaw whose death is shrouded in mystery.

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

This scrap yard doubles as a naive art gallery full of found art and farm animals.

This bomb shelter-themed bar has barely changed since it opened.

This Old West prison built into the side of a cliff was said to be inescapable.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

This old selenite mine is dotted with tiny crystals that make it shimmer like it's covered in glitter.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

A once popular resort—said to be the vacation spot of gangster Al Capone—now remains abandoned in the woods of Arizona.

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

A partial tunnel blasted into a steep ridge is all that remains of a failed railway across Arizona.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.