Places dshillis Wants to Go

The only restaurant serving indigenous foods from the Amazon.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

An old railroad grade built for the construction of Hoover Dam is now a recreational trail featuring several tunnels and sweeping views of Lake Mead.

See the imprints of ancient trees, burned and preserved by lava.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

A century-old miner's quarters turned mansion.

The former home of the 11th president of the United States.

Founded in 1788, this Rhode Island institution is the oldest operating general store in America.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

This huge abandoned fortress hidden inside a mountain holds a world of subterranean secrets.

The caldera of this mini-volcano has been turned into a naturally heated mud bath.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.

This Gothic church houses ornate royal tombs and a magnificent gilded altarpiece.

A magnificent place to see authentic paleolithic cave paintings that are an astounding 33,000 years old.

This religious complex carved into a cliff is steeped in legends of miraculous stags and the Holy Grail.