Places jenna013 Wants to Go

Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.

The shortest river in America flows for just 201 feet.

This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.

An antique Beechcraft airplane serves as a giant windsock for people driving through the blustery open country of eastern Wyoming.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

The 92-foot-tall structure is based on the aircraft that carried the first Americans into space.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

The remains of a bustling turn-of-the-century park built to showcase the wonders of electricity.

This family driveway also serves as the highest point in Illinois.

The Iowa state contender for largest pan in the world oddly only comes in second or so.

Eight feet in diameter and more than 24 feet around.

The highest point in Iowa, while not that impressive to mountain states, has earned its own monuments.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.