Places Jenn Eidemiller Wants to Go

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Once a year, at exactly 11:11 a.m., this monument comes to life.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

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

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Eerily lifelike effigies stare at everyone who enters this sanctuary.

A Neolithic tomb hidden among a spectacular boulder-strewn stretch of coast.

This 500-year-old Tudor home is a treasure trove of history and mystery.

An unexpectedly extraterrestrial room in a former Victorian resort club.

Quirky Welsh observatory unites art and science.

A Welsh sheep farm provides daily (non-sheep) meals to red kites, producing dazzling displays of aerial acrobatics.

The artist David Nash planted a circle of trees in 1977.

A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.

The enormous earthwork sculpture honors the ponies that lived and worked in the old colliery.

The world’s only museum dedicated to baked beans.

Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.

After years of slow decline, a derelict Gothic castle is now being restored to life.