Places bertshetler Wants to Go

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

Science meets wall art to highlight the beauty of famous mathematical equations.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

The lake that fills and empties itself at random.

This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.

Every year locals give the bear a fresh coat of paint to preserve its signature goofy grin.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

The past, present, and future of Russia's signature alcohol is remembered in the world's only museum dedicated to the starchy spirit.

A scale model of Russia so big visitors are offered binoculars to rent so they can see the whole thing.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

This Russian museum stresses the importance of keeping clean and even holds one of Pavlov's dogs.

An ever-growing literary collection housed in the apartment where the Russian author penned his final novel.

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.

A hidden tunnel leads to an abandoned slate quarry that's now a secret swimming spot guarded by cliffs.