Places AndiLou Wants to Go

400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.

Away from the crowds of fishing enthusiasts, take a hike deep into the woods and journey into an eerie darkness.

An indoor botanical garden for tropical plants looks like a giant cylinder lying on its side.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

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

When it was built in 1929, this historic bridge was the only place to cross the Colorado River for 600 miles.

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

Take in the beauty of the Milky Way at one of the best sites for stargazing in Nevada—a state with some tough competition.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

Spectacular volcanic cliffs along the Crooked River invite hiking, rock climbing, and photography.

The only bridge in the United States where BASE jumping is legal without a permit year-round.

These falls, sometimes called the "Niagara of the West," still put on a good show at the right time of year.

One of the "twins" in these falls on the Snake River was sacrificed for hydropower generation in the 1930s.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

A museum chronicling pioneer life constructed over Interstate 80.