Places AKAnderswo Wants to Go

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

This unique tower has been home to malaria-fighting bats for 100 years.

A striking lighthouse with views of the Gulf of Mexico and of a military air show.

This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.

The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.

This picturesque ghost town is located on the banks of the Suwannee River.

This sundial indicates the time based on where you stand within it.

A beautiful red-faced slot canyon in northern New Mexico.

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

It’s hard to believe this hostile landscape was once a health resort.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

This sculpture perfectly models the molecular structure of a drug that was never produced.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

Secluded springs in the Rio Grande Gorge offer hot bathing beside the haunted ruins of a stagecoach stop.

This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

The shattered remnants of a meteor that struck Santa Fe more than a billion years ago.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.