Places Jonathann Gougnon Wants to Go

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

Urine-soaked Chinese eggs.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

A large, remote national monument highlights the typical geologic structure seen in Nevada.

Housing the National Women's Party since 1929, this historic house is now a monument to the fight for gender equality.

The remnants of the base where US Army troops learned how to fight in extreme conditions.

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

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

The oldest pictographs on this decorated rock formation in California's Carrizo Plain date back as many as 4,000 years.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

An interesting look into 18th-century American history.

The ruins of this abandoned fort now stand as a picturesque reminder of America's march West.

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

The grounds of former plantations where abolitionist Harriet Tubman spent her youth enslaved are now a museum to her incredible life.

Atop an active stratovolcano, two lakes separated by a narrow strip of land.

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.

This arid landscape was once a lush wetland. Today, it's a paleontological site filled with fossilized mammoths, sabertooth cats, and more.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.