Places Charles WV Wants to Go

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

At certain times in the fall and winter, the sunlight makes this natural sandstone arch glow.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

Now a city park, this site started as a stage stop, then was a working ranch, and finally became a dude ranch that specialized in letting wannabe divorcees establish Nevada residency.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

An old railroad grade built for the construction of Hoover Dam is now a recreational trail featuring several tunnels and sweeping views of Lake Mead.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.

Inhospitable caverns just beneath this island paradise offer insights into alien worlds.

Impressive sink holes fill this untouched old-growth forest in the Bahamas.

A paradise hotel turned from opulent to overgrown.

These two giant boulders mysteriously perched on a 60-foot cliff may have been slung up there by a raging tsunami.

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

The site of the earliest colonial settlement in the Bahamas started as a place of religious refuge.

In the Bahamas sits a lighthouse that is among the last of its kind.

A steamer run aground near Bimini lives a second life as a playground for scuba divers.

One man's love of sea life and art has turned his home into a temple of outsider island art.

Bermuda triangle lighthouse, site of mysterious disappearances, left to crumble into the Atlantic.

Ireland's most northerly island is hauntingly beautiful. Its lighthouse was the last glimpse of home for many Irish emigrants bound for the U.S.

This scenic road offers breathtaking mountain pass views and a quirky “magic road” illusion.