Places j3taylor Wants to Go

This museum seems tiny but is absolutely packed full of regional history.

Austin’s first public mural is a 50-year-old psychedelic time capsule where armadillos, musicians, outlaws and local legends hide an entire city’s history in plain sight.

Raised catwalk walk through the trees alongside a river starting from an abandoned and colorful pumping station.

The cavern’s main chamber is so vast that the Statue of Liberty could reportedly fit inside it.

It memorializes America’s initial military response to the terrorist attacks on our country on September 11, 2001.

Founded in 1933, this creamery has produced world-class cheeses and was the first American creamery to win a world champion title at the World Cheese Awards.

A rare example of pre-Revolutionary war Georgian-style architecture in Virginia's Piedmont region.

A small arthouse cinema in Bend, Oregon showing independent films in a tucked away historic alley

The only place in the Grand Canyon where an automobile can be driven to the Colorado River

A large wave-cut arch in limestone, carved by Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, is perched atop a ridge.

A remote mine in sedimentary rock was called the richest copper ore deposit in Arizona Territory

The junction point of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, resurveyed and remonumented in 2016

The forlorn remains of a late Cold War radar installation are decaying in the Oregon desert

A 57-foot stained-glass dome from a Parisian tango house now crowns a wine bar in the San Bernardino Mountains.

A colorful street mural created in downtown Vista by world-renowned spray-paint artist Chor Boogie (Jason Hailey), who grew up in the area.

Secluded wading pool with small waterfall and lovely nature.

Hidden away in an alleyway, this diminutive chapel is said to be the smallest church in Rome

Two statues of the fictitious toy robots that ran afoul of local government

A giant gopher perched on top of a pint-sized Mexican restaurant pays tribute to classic roadside architecture

Remains of an ancient village perched on top of a remote mesa

A petroglyph purportedly left by the first European to enter Arizona

From this small hill near Phoenix, almost all of Arizona was surveyed and plotted out

Here began Southern California's oil boom over 100 years ago

A 28-exhibit museum about the history, culture, and oddities of money. Visitors stand in a cash shower, try to crack a vault, and discover what it's like to barter when no money is allowed.