Places bodcm Wants to Go

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

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

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

Home of a French nobleman's short-lived attempt at raising cattle in the Badlands of North Dakota.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

Creek water that starts here has a 50/50 chance of ending up in the Atlantic or the Pacific.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.