Places bigredfoote Wants to Go

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

Michigan's first reclaimed art sculpture lounges along the Upper Peninsula's Manistique River.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

Hanging over one of Japan’s “hidden valleys,” these vine bridges must be remade every three years.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

Crisp mountain water cascades over volcanic rocks at these secluded falls outside Pagosa Springs.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

Mysterious markers have been giving the public a lesson in dendrochronology for over a century.

An improbable sinkhole in the sediments flanking the Beaver Dam Mountains.

America’s first living history museum of camping — a decade-by-decade museum of vintage campers, luxury tents, and Northwoods vacation history that guests can actually sleep in.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

On the edge of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, these rock formations create an eerie landscape.

A beautiful red-faced slot canyon in northern New Mexico.

These strange carved boulders in a forested canyon resemble tiny stone villages.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

A rare memento of a lost Indigenous group.

Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."

This unassuming layer of clay boasts an out-of-this-world origin story.

The highest point in Nevada had to be decided by court order after California tried to claim it as their own.

Deep vertical fissures like miniature slot canyons cut across the cemented volcanic rock of Black Point above Mono Lake.