Places arod8205 Wants to Go

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

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

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A land of debatable treasure.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

A cosmic pit stop just beyond the notorious Area 51.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

This hidden fire lookout offers spectacular views of Sequoia National Park.

The last remnant of a tree that helped prove to the world that sequoias are real—and they’re spectacular.

The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.