Places Jenn Eidemiller Wants to Go

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

An underwater city for the dead.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.