Places engelhardus Wants to Go

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

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.

This park contains one of the largest concentrations of cedar glades, a unique and rare ecosystem.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

The so-called "world's shortest river" is actually a window into a cave.

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

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

An abandoned railroad tunnel forgotten by time awaits inquisitive hikers.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.