Places dcooke464 Wants to Go

At Fountain and Division, in the shadow of Kendall College of Art and Design, lays the story of a fictional culture whose political system was used under license and who finally rebelled.

On the right bank of the Grand River a plaque remembers an imaginary painter who once awaited his youth.

In Grand Rapids, Michigan, a marker honors the creation story of a proud fictional culture.

On a wall in Cleveland, Ohio find the story of a highly connected fictional community of organisms that created remarkable, lasting structures.

This plaque marks the site where the penultimate chapter in the journey of two doomed boys unfolded in an imagined parallel universe.

Erosion and various mineral deposits give this striking canyon its distinct color and soft appearance.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

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.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

An ancient Phoenician citadel once stood at the site where Queen Dido first landed, according to legend.

The tallest waterfall in the Judean Desert is named for its connection to a biblical figure.

Nineteen ancient rock-cut Buddhist caves can be found on the outskirts of Mumbai.

Every summer, the Mendenhall River greenbelt comes alive with an explosion of magenta flowers.

During the Soviet era, the medieval capital of Volga Bulgaria served as a substitute for Mecca.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

A waterfall and cave near Arroyo Seco that inspired the writings of D. H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, and Mabel Dodge Luhan.

The site of the worst mining disaster in Ohio's history.

This megalithic tomb was crafted by a mysterious civilization that settled the island of Pantelleria.