Places Calmmseas Wants to Go

A set of tall pillars and alcove-like rooms that are significant to the Miami people of Indiana.

This isthmus in the Bahamas narrowly separates the roiling Atlantic from the cool Bight of Eleuthera.

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.

A humid oasis combines recreation with exploration in a unique underwater cavern.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

In Rickwood Caverns, visitors can travel hundreds of feet underground and see beautiful formations unique to the region.

One of almost 200 confirmed impact craters in the entire world, untouched for tens of millions of years.

The Connecticut village named for its subterranean thunder.

The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.

Rocky outcrops containing overhangs, caves, fissures, clefts, and alcoves that invite exploration and scrambling.

Construction uncovered this trove of fossils, which visitors are welcome to add to their own collections.

A secret, rocky playground hidden amongst the plain white beaches of the Florida coast.

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.

Spectacular mineral formations fill these caves, which have been used for everything from smoking meat to stashing illicit liquor.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

A once-groundbreaking power plant turned into a hotel and mini-museum of archeological and geological wonders.

Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

A chilling disappearance (and rescue) of a child uncovers a geological mystery.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

This was the first ever National Lakeshore, established in 1966.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

This park contains a number of standing stones meant to heal and inspire.