Places Cricket2005 Wants to Go

A volcanic core jutting above the plain between the Snake and Boise Rivers, a marker identifies the reference point for all U.S. Government Surveys in Idaho.

Some 46,000 years ago, a volcanic eruption led to a flooding event that carved this short canyon with steep vertical walls.

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.

A small section of Boise, Idaho maintains the unique culture and traditions of the Basque people.

Jail from the 19th century that was built by inmates.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

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.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

A lonely memorial to the Challenger Space Shuttle, honoring the astronauts who died in 1986.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.