Places exvine Wants to Go

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The world's tallest turtle riding the world's largest snowmobile.

On the windswept Dakota plains there is a memorial to circus workers who were struck down by lightning.

A partial tunnel blasted into a steep ridge is all that remains of a failed railway across Arizona.

Rumor had it that these concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland helped align spy satellites. (They didn’t.)

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

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

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

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

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

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

These unusual houses look like giant boats that washed ashore on a residential street.