Places BlueGranite1 Wants to Go

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

Wander through more than 20,000 square feet filled with an amazing collection of orchids.

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

Four abandoned towers hidden above the Douglas fir forest in Washington.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

A cave interior in the shape of the ancient rhinoceros, created by lava cooling around its carcass.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

This elaborate estate contains a stunning marble aviary, a sunken conservatory, and a magnificent music room with a two-story pipe organ.

Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.

This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.

This interpretive path lets you get up close and personal with dinosaur bones.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.

This grave marks the final resting place of a legendary frontiersman... unless it doesn't.