Places westcoastspirit Wants to Go

A science teacher's dream.

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

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

This natural wonderland is a unique chance to explore a Carolina bay, a mysterious geological formation of unknown origin.

A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.

Tucked away inside a historic Savannah hotel is a hundred-year history presented in ladies' lids.

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

The Lowcountry color with the power to stop evil from entering a home.

North America's oldest authentic African Village.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

Although resembling a grand Buddhist temple, this structure is actually the largest mosque in China.

Visit the art studio of an early 20th-century painter, hidden amid the Great Smoky Mountains.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

An annual celebration of the region's successful elk reintroduction program.

Concentrated around the Dead Sea, these surprising canyons are filled with coursing water, fish, and even crabs.

A magical oasis in the middle of the Negev Desert.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.

This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.