Places 78stidham Wants to Go

This sacred space and gathering spot for the Wyandot Nation has been the surrounded by controversy and confusion.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.

In a dry, neglected cemetery lies the unassuming grave of a soldier vilified in life but celebrated in death.

Over 1.3 million confiscated wildlife products fill this macabre menagerie of illegal animal specimens.

This interactive museum preserves the big aviation history of this small Missouri town

The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.

Lone survivor from Custer's Last Stand forever preserved.

These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

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

Hidden high on a remote mountain peak is a humbling and mysterious Vietnam War memorial.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.

Located in the world's highest-altitude Dark Sky Community, this observatory welcomes amateur and professional astronomers alike.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

Nature has shaped this drainage tunnel into the digestive tract of a mighty beast.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

This church was constructed by a shipbuilder and designed like an upside-down boat.

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