Places 3Lives Wants to Go

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

See a full-scale whale skeleton and experience the captivating culture of Alaska’s Native people at this heritage center in east Anchorage.

This Alaska library may be the only one in the country that allows you to check out pieces of taxidermy.

Internationally recognized group that works to protect the wolf and educate the public about its plight.

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

Low tide reveals 8,000-year-old rock carvings in Southern Alaska.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.