Places barrymitchellpe Wants to Go

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

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

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

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

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

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

Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

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

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

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

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

The only remaining arch of the oldest stone bridge in Rome stands in the middle of the Tiber.