Places jacksonhotaling Wants to Go

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

Thousands of Haitians travel to the waterfalls to ask the Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and her voodoo counterpart Erzulie for healing in a yearly pilgrimage.

A macabre sculpture museum in the capital of Haiti fuses human bones with broken metal to create challenging contemporary art.

A ruined Maya city that suffered a years-long case of mistaken identity.

An enormous, 30-story-deep hole in the middle of Guatemala City.

Giant kites are flown during this Day of the Dead celebration in Guatemala.

This restored colonial house was once home to the botanist responsible for bringing avocados to the U.S.

Believe it or not, the now-ubiquitous California avocado originated in Guatemala.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

With the Wild Bunch hunted almost to extinction and the law closing in on him, Butch Cassidy fled to this remote cabin in Argentina.

This isolated outpost was once the only place to cross the Colorado River for hundreds of miles.

A collection of huge, site-specific sculptures sitting in the Montana woods.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

A cave interior in the shape of the ancient rhinoceros, created by lava cooling around its carcass.

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

Trimmed trees grow alongside the graves like topiary tombstones.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

Thirteen trees representing the original thirteen colonies were planted with soil from historic Revolutionary battlefields.