Places jackofalltrails Wants to Go

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.

The site of a defunct mill, that once supplied marble for the construction of the Lincoln Memorial.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

This remote Colorado canyon is home to the second-largest collection of natural arches in the world.

This old selenite mine is dotted with tiny crystals that make it shimmer like it's covered in glitter.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

While there are no actual snakes in the history of this crooked road, there may be a number of dead horses.

One of the most extensive and well-preserved collections of dinosaur footprints in North America.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

Climb to the top of this spiritual tower, and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views.

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

The remnants of a creative early method of wildfire prevention.

Over 1.3 million confiscated wildlife products fill this macabre menagerie of illegal animal specimens.

A collection of human remains, animal body parts, and other macabre curiosities all legally for sale.

This wondrous hideaway is suspended in a bamboo forest above a sanctuary for rescued llamas and alpacas.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.

Community owned and operated, this property is home to a diverse set of nudists.

View rare birds and interact with lemurs at this nonprofit run entirely by volunteers.