Places barrymitchellpe Wants to Go

The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

The walls of the iconic dome are hollow and have a secret stairway.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

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

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.