Places Joe Wants to Go

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

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

A magical sinkhole on the Yucatán Peninsula is adorned with mini waterfalls and hanging vines.

Raging waters have created a strange geological site that looks like something off of a progressive rock album cover.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A 200-year-old tavern challenges guests to finish a glass of wine while hanging from a ceiling beam.

The grandiose interior of this bar speaks to its past as home to famous jewelers and railway offices.

This small corner bar is home to a rare 1930s dance organ that still plays tunes for one Euro.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

A remarkably futuristic building sits in the oldest town in Louisiana.

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

This unusual structure may be on its way to becoming a cultural landmark in Toronto.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

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

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.