Places hopemch Wants to Go

What better place to take a seat?

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.

An antique Beechcraft airplane serves as a giant windsock for people driving through the blustery open country of eastern Wyoming.

At the time of its completion, it was the tallest dam in the world.

The same security that protects our nukes accidentally protected a gentle herd of antelope.

Dance on a hand-hewn log floor padded with bouncy boxcar springs at a saloon built in 1883.

A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.

This Wyoming town is fascinated by a particular mythical creature.

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.

Population: 1.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

Creek water that starts here has a 50/50 chance of ending up in the Atlantic or the Pacific.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.