Places CUTIETHlNG Wants to Go

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

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

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

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

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.