Places Stuart Black Wants to Go

Canada shows its hockey pride with a giant stick.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

Adobe ruins punctuate the beauty of an 800 foot canyon carved by the Canadian River.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

On the side of a remote mountain, a stone face bearing an inscription of mysterious origin.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

Mine your own precious stones.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

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

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

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

This extinct shield volcano is the lightning rod of the Cascades.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.