Places arod8205 Wants to Go

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Walk through row upon row of manicured miniature trees at the United States' largest bonsai nursery.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

An old town theater converted into a celebration of the hobo legacy.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

The ruins of this former mining boomtown once housed over 3,000 people. Now, the population is two.

Hidden in the Chihuahuan Desert resides an amazing collection of petroglyphs.

Recycling meets art in this colorful barricade.

In the middle of a desert subdivision, there is supposedly an impact crater site from Kcymaerxthaereal times.

This towering volcanic plug stands out among the dramatic formations that dot this otherworldly desert valley.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Surrounded by a smudge of dark earth, this isolated volcano sits in stark contrast to the surrounding Sahara.