Places helitua Wants to Go

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

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

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

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

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

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.