Places daratheodora Wants to Go

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

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

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

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

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

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.