Places Entropical Paradise Wants to Go

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

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

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

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

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

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.