Places Jochen Duckeck Wants to Go

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

Otherworldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

A midcentury ranch house hides a literal treasure trove of unique rocks and minerals.

A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

In the middle of a suburban Denver neighborhood is a cave that once provided solace for a prominent Ute chief and his family.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

This massive boulder is either a unique rock formation created by glacial melt or a magic energy vortex.

A cave interior in the shape of the ancient rhinoceros, created by lava cooling around its carcass.

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

Contrary to what one might expect, ice forms inside this small cavern during the summer and melts during the winter.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

This famous Nevada gold mine, once a hotbed of Wild West shenanigans, is now open for tours.

An impressive collection of over 50,000 minerals including moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission.

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.