Places Jenn Eidemiller Wants to Go

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

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

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

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

Giant scissors seemingly stabbed into the side of a hair salon leave no question about the vocation of the owners.

A black and white painted wall creates an optical illusion in the California desert.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A non-native grove of 241 redwoods in Southern California.

A sparse, solitary sequoia still stands as a living tribute to the famous conservationist who planted it—but it's dying.

A tribute to one man's legacy of improving the accordion's reputation.

This giant spider sculpture made from the iconic car is one giant visual pun.

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

What began as an illegal art installation has become a symbol for unity, ocean awareness, and coastline preservation.

This 75-year-old Shakespearean sculpture is painted by a local artist for every season.

Across Ring Mountain is a vast collection of Native American petroglyphs unique to the region.

This park is home to California's first oil boomtown, with structures that have stood for more than a century.

Astronomers plan to launch a space telescope into orbit, to find out what exactly stands in the way of an asteroid hitting Earth.

Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.

Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

You don't want to get caught in this trap--or do you?

Each summer, the migratory bats living beneath the bypass form "batnadoes" at dusk.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.