Places emthecloud Wants to Go

This Taoist temple is the oldest continuously used Chinese temple in California.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

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

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

This lonely gas station has stood at this location since 1917.

A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

Hidden in the hills of Western Pennsylvania lies one of the best-kept ghost towns in America that you can legally visit.

Idaho’s largest, deepest limestone cave is known for its quirky rock formations and bat population.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

A former Canadian automobile ferry mysteriously appeared in the Black River 20 years ago, and now it quietly rusts away.

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

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

This balancing rock is one of Utah's most unusual geological formations.

This magnificent natural sandstone bridge is one of the largest in the world and is an iconic symbol for Lake Powell.

The damming of the Colorado River buried an iconic geologic formation before record-breaking drought brought it back.

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

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

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