Places candicecloutier Wants to Go

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

A volcanic fissure over two miles long and up to 70 feet deep.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

This long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

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

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.

Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.