Places Jackieacosta Wants to Go

During the solar phenomenon "Lahaina Noon" this bendy, curvy sculpture forms a perfectly circular shadow on the ground.

Try your hand at old-fashioned coffee growing at this museum devoted to one of the world's most coveted beans.

The famous aviator's final resting place is a study in natural beauty.

A cooled lava flow from the Haleakalā volcano formed these surreal-looking columnar basalt structures.

Get up close and personal with these majestic fish.

Once home to over 8,000 exiled Hawaiians suffering from Hansen's Disease.

This ancient Hawaiian henge may have been an early star chart.

This narrow coastline trail through the dense Kauai wilderness is among the most beautiful and dangerous in the world.

A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.

A model of a galactic embassy is hidden in plain sight along the highway, proposed by a UFO religion to find the aliens that created life on Earth.

Take shelter from Hawai'i's tropical heat under the massive canopy of largest Banyan tree on the island.

This former luxury resort in Kaua'i is now an abandoned relic.

Submerged lava formations create incredible waterworks.

A true treehouse near Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.

A prehistoric landscape hidden in the cliffs of Maha'ulepu.

This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

These ancient sacred grounds granted amnesty to those who managed to reach them.

A once-glowing grotto at the bottom of Waikapalae Wet Cave.

Doris Duke's lasting collection of Islamic Art, hidden in a Hawaiian paradise.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.

A tunnel of hardened lava along Maui’s famous Road to Hana.

Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.