Places eljojoe Wants to Go

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

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

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

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

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

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

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

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

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

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.

This open air cathedral invites all faiths to worship under the only roof big enough to fit them all: the sky.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.