Places capvt Wants to Go

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

An abandoned Soviet-era mining town in the mountains of South Kazakhstan.

A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.

Central City celebrates its most famous madam by racing beds down Main Street.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

The only remnant of a small mining town is an abandoned railroad tunnel that is steeped in ghostly lore.

A local prank turned town icon.

Historic home of America's sweetheart sharpshooter, Annie Oakley.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

A Civil War fort in the middle of Washington, D.C. has been swallowed by a forest.

Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.

This Virginia town has been famous for its fried chicken since the 19th century.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

A mysterious ancient cemetery with Roman sarcophagi and Lycian inscriptions.

A lush desert oasis in the shape of a narrow crescent.