Places cherylrowe81 Wants to Go

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

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

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This sandstone marvel of nature is worth a stop along Highway 65.

Crystal hunters can dig for their own stones at this DIY mine in Arkansas’ quartz belt.

In the Ozarks, a waterfall shoots out from a glorious hole.

The warmest cave in the Ozarks features two seemingly bottomless lakes.

The highest waterfall between the Rockies and the Appalachian Mountains.

The seventh largest spring in the world.

Two gushing waterfalls of hot spring water within a block of each other.

Home to a seasonal waterfall and swimming hole in the Ouachita Mountains.

This restaurant serves wood-fired fare served in a natural cave with a live spring.

The remains of the first public diamond mine in Arkansas.

This historic bridge has weathered fires and floods and still stands, now abandoned, where it has stood since 1874.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.