Places j3taylor Wants to Go

Over 100 lasers, including huge ones that look straight off a sci-fi set.

At 11,500 feet in elevation, there is no toilet in the state closer to the sky than this one.

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

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

One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.

An urban laboratory.

A bronze statue to commemorate an Auckland library's beloved feline resident.

Two geologically young and nearly circular volcanic subsidence craters, each about a half-mile in diameter, abruptly break the nearly featureless Snake River Plain.

A multicolored mineral mound dribbles piping hot spring water right off the side of a highway.

A museum dedicated to celebrating the humble wingnut.

One of the few slot canyons in New Mexico, this area is fantastic for hiking, camping, and stargazing.

Despite their macabre past, these hooks are said to bring good luck to those who touch them.

The French leader's hat sits in a glass case at the oldest restaurant in Paris.

This hiking trail is scattered with the remains of a failed attempt to provide water to farmers in Dry Fork Canyon.

This shrine, built to protect against destructive waves, is home to two monumental lion heads.

The "Grand Canyon of Southwestern Idaho" makes a spectacular gash across the flat Snake River plain.

This vast and otherworldly landscape is one of the largest dune complexes in North America.

One man’s obsessive, 30-plus-year quest is behind the pies at this spot on the Lower East Side.

This unassuming bridge is most likely one of Michelangelo's unfinished masterworks.

These natural hot springs form four-tiered soaking pools with temperatures ranging from 85 to 115 degrees Fahrenheit.

The road plays 30 seconds of the Marine’s Hymn when driving over the grooved pavement.

Explore the flooded remains of a limestone mine in Kentucky.

Does this church in Naples hold the true tomb of Vlad the Impaler, the notoriously cruel figure who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula?

The rocks exposed at Valley of Fire State Park also occur in a much less known but equally spectacular area a few miles to the southwest.