Places eschreiber Wants to Go

Thousands of unmarked, sunken graves in a pauper's cemetery.

An ADA-accessible trail and deck offering stunning views of Colorado’s Mount of the Holy Cross.

The only retired U.S. nuclear missile silo that is open to the public.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

This often-overlooked canyon dazzles and intrigues with its many layers of colors, shapes and odd formations.

See a full-scale whale skeleton and experience the captivating culture of Alaska’s Native people at this heritage center in east Anchorage.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

This cemetery is one of the last remaining traces of a drowned old Western town.

Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

An ordinary rancher stumbled upon one of the world’s largest collections of Pliocene horse fossils.

A volcanic core jutting above the plain between the Snake and Boise Rivers, a marker identifies the reference point for all U.S. Government Surveys in Idaho.

A lava tube cooled to form this long tunnel that stays chilly even at the height of summer.

Two geologically young and nearly circular volcanic subsidence craters, each about a half-mile in diameter, abruptly break the nearly featureless Snake River Plain.

Some 46,000 years ago, a volcanic eruption led to a flooding event that carved this short canyon with steep vertical walls.

The source of America's longest river is also a historical landmark and the start of a famous nude run.

An art installation commemorates journalist Nellie Bly's undercover reporting inside a New York asylum.

The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.

A scenic ravine with an astounding collection of rock art created by the Indigenous people of the Great Plains.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

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

Ute tour guides have been sharing the ancient dwellings and rock art inside this large park with visitors for more than 40 years.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

Once an ancient sea, this landscape of rocky ravines is filled with the fossils of ancient marine life.