Places bertshetler Wants to Go

Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

No one’s quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.

The largest dinosaur trackway in North America is tucked away among this canyon's ghosts and archaeological gems.

This small piece of railroad history sits behind the parking lot of a chain grocery store.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

A cooled lava flow from the Haleakalā volcano formed these surreal-looking columnar basalt structures.

Formerly a lovely white sand beach this Hawaiian stretch is now a trap for countless tons of trash.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.

A true treehouse near Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.