Places jddarcy Wants to Go

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.

This twice-relocated "Usonian" home is among the smallest built by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

This massive statue of John Muir on the side of a California highway was carved from a redwood tree.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

This small shack near the entrance to Sequoia National Park has been in almost continuous operation for the last century.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

A crack flared at the base provides a pathway completely through a sandstone ridge near Moab.

This 18th-century fort surrounded by a moat was used to store gun powder and ammunition, and now sits in the middle of a large park in Dublin.

A bronze tribute to a legendary Californian, the self-proclaimed "Emperor of the United States."

The Internet Age began with a transmission from this biker bar.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Built in 1347, this belfry is one of the oldest in the world and survived intense bombing during World War I.

The location of the Bridge of Death and the Gorge of Eternal Peril in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

One of the largest fleets of armored vehicles in the world, sitting out in the California desert.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

A busy island at the center of the world that doesn’t actually exist.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.