Places atecca Wants to Go

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

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

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

The highest peak in the state of Vermont has some interesting features.

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.

The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

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

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!