Places engelhardus Wants to Go

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

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

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

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

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.