Memphis, Tennessee
The Crystal Shrine Grotto
This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Memphis, Tennessee
This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.
San Juan Capistrano, California
This park is home to well over 100 handmade birdhouses.
Mission Viejo, California
This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.
Escondido, California
This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.
Carlsbad, California
Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Despite being stolen multiple times, this civic electrician's street corner Snoopy won't be stopped.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This secluded walking trail is a hidden gem of a Pittsburgh park.
Rapid City, South Dakota
A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.
Kansas City, Missouri
This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.
Springdale, Utah
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.
Panguitch, Utah
Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.
Henrieville, Utah
This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.
Provo, Utah
In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.
Herriman, Utah
A replica that won't float away.
Soda Springs, Idaho
Home to a timed geyser created by complete accident.
Park County, Montana
A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.
Lovell, Wyoming
Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.
Cody, Wyoming
At the time of its completion, it was the tallest dam in the world.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.
Cody, Wyoming
One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.