Places Aty Trocious Wants to Go

The easiest way to the highest point in Wyoming is only accessible via one hefty fee.

The highest point in Montana is as rugged and singular as the state itself.

At the tallest peak in Colorado, an electrifying mix of thin air, lightning, and rivalry.

Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

A local prank turned town icon.

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

A breathtaking canyon offers stunning views and frightful pathways through an ecological paradise.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

A plaque outside the San Jose airport commemorates the insect's arrival to the West Coast.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The roadway bend where highway painters practice their craft looks like expressionist art.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.