Places eternalmd31 Wants to Go

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

Catch a glimpse of the elusive Peninsular bighorns right off of the desert freeway.

For decades, the largest tungsten producer in the U.S. was located in a spectacular setting in the high Sierra Nevada, with some of the workings over 11,000 feet.

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

A chilling disappearance (and rescue) of a child uncovers a geological mystery.

A strange rock in Chicago marks the spot where a tree once stood in honor of the 18th President.

Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

Each of these hand-painted wooden boxes, which date to between the 16th and 19th centuries, contains a genuine human skull.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

A once popular resort—said to be the vacation spot of gangster Al Capone—now remains abandoned in the woods of Arizona.

An urban laboratory.

More than a century old, this trading post resides in the Navajo Nation.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

This sinkhole in the Arizona desert is filled with carbonated, arsenic-rich water

The largest and most well-preserved petroglyph site in the Verde Valley.