Places ElkFlat Wants to Go

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

The highest peak in the Jemez Mountains and the traditional center of the Pueblo world.

A flat-topped butte that makes a constant backdrop for Western art.

The vanishing remains of an old water station from the late 19th century.

This old army installation has worn many hats throughout its history.

A beautiful red-faced slot canyon in northern New Mexico.

These strange carved boulders in a forested canyon resemble tiny stone villages.

A 6,888-carat piece of turquoise that bears a striking resemblance to the first President of the United States.

These unique volcanic rock formations offer the perfect opportunity to camp and hike.

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

This abandoned church dominates the landscape of a former mining boomtown.

A strange sandstone formation in the middle of nowhere presents an interesting climbing opportunity.

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

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

The final resting place of the most famous outlaw in the Old West.