Tag: “Black Rock Desert”

41 places found.

  1. Mini Hollywood

    Remember the great "Dollar Trilogy" of the often underappreciated spaghetti western genre? Sergio Leone shot "A Fistful of Dollars", "For a Few Dollars More" and "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" (all of them starring a young and almost unknown American actor named Clint Eastwood) in the mid 60's in the desert of Tabernas in Almeria, Spain.

    Mini Hollywood is a theme park that features some of the original sets used in all these movies, as well as occasional staged shootings and chasings performed by professional stunts.

  2. Bodie State Historic Park

    Probably the best preserved of all Ghost Towns. Bodie was known for being an incredibly lawless town.

  3. Big Daddy's

    Venice Beach health food. Well, not quite.

  4. High Road to Taos

    A visit to Santa Fe would not be complete without a day trip to the high mountain art community of Taos, NM. There are several different ways to make your way to Taos but the very best way (as far as I'm concerned) is to take the "High Road".

  5. Beirut, Lebanon

    Everyone says, dreamily, "it's the Paris of the Middle East." It's not. Beirut is its own funky animal: tense, beautiful, cracking with growth, assaulted by civil strife, graffitied with advertising for Starbucks and Applebees and perfumes from Paris, but without jobs for women, without futures for the young people bristling with university degrees.

  6. Devil's Kitchen

    On the Soldier Pass trail outside Sedona, just below Castle Rock, is Devil's Kitchen, a huge sinkhole that' collapsed in 1888. It is 112 feet across and 65 feet deep.

  7. Graceland

    Graceland is the name of the mansion where the late great Elvis Presley lived. It currently serves as a museum and is open to the public.

  8. Giant Camera

    The Giant Camera is a walk-in camera obscura, based on a 15th century design by Leonardo da Vinci.It produces 360 degrees of spectacular Live Images of the Seal Rock Area. It overlooks Ocean Beach, and is located next to the Cliff House restaurant.

  9. Taliesin West

    Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home and architectural school. Every year Wright and his fellowship of apprentices and students, would move between the summer home in Wisconsin, and here in the winter.

  10. Wadi Rum

    Wadi Rum (Arabic: وادي رم) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock in southwest Jordan. It is the largest wadi in Jordan.