Places JackalopeTamer Wants to Go

Make a wish at what might be America's only Catholic shrine to a sinner.

Giant telescope mirrors built in a spinning furnace under a college football stadium.

Grown from a seed that went to the moon!

One of the largest private collections of cars manufactured by the short-lived Franklin Automobile Company.

Enormous photography collection housed in a study center co-founded by Ansel Adams.

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

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

This notorious dive has been serving up both kinds of spirits since 1879.

This 19th-century house museum features a horse-drawn hearse and other antique oddities.

This fully restored synagogue explores the American Jewish experience along the old frontier.

Thousands of unmarked, sunken graves in a pauper's cemetery.

A quiet rock and botanical garden is the beautiful centerpiece of Fort Lewis College.

Sip heritage cider with a surprising backstory at this family-owned cidery.

A riverside tiny house with books and other treasures galore.

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

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

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

Ride a gondola up to this historic mountainside eatery.

The self-proclaimed gateway to the Extraterrestrial Highway.

Fill up your senses in this beautiful riverside garden, dedicated to the works of singer-songwriter John Denver.

A recreation of an Old West apothecary full of curios.

An improbable sinkhole in the sediments flanking the Beaver Dam Mountains.

A whimsical roadside community of little metal people.

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