Places eecarter Wants to Go

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

The largest wildlife crossing in Utah allows local fauna to safely traverse the six-lane Interstate 80 at Parleys Canyon.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

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.

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

A series of labyrinths in the Nevada desert inspire meditation and calmness.

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.