Places hobbit3175 Wants to Go

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.

Only a few signs remain of the buried Colorado mining town that supplied the uranium for the first atomic bomb.

This interpretive path lets you get up close and personal with dinosaur bones.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

An empty mine that some believe will suddenly be filled with fortune and treasures at the end of the world.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

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

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

This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

While you're unlikely to find riches here these days, this remote mine is a time capsule of the Gold Rush era.

Nestled in Coachella Valley, this museum transports guests from the Mesozoic Era, to the land of Egyptian kings.

Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.