Places aripley6000 Wants to Go

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

The perfect place to take a family of giants for a beach vacation.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

This remote camping site offers incredible stargazing opportunities.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

One of the most extensive and well-preserved collections of dinosaur footprints in North America.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

The largest natural travertine bridge in the world is nestled in a small canyon in central Arizona.

The largest and most well-preserved petroglyph site in the Verde Valley.

One of the best-preserved ghost towns in Arizona speaks to the difficulties of establishing mining towns in the 19th century American West.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

Once disputed as the largest sundial in the world.

These petroglyphs created by ancient Arizonians have withstood centuries of exposure to the elements.

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

The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.