Places jstarkey Wants to Go

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

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

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

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

The remains of what was, not so long ago, the world's largest city.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

This sinkhole is disguised as a pond and named after the man who stumbled upon it.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.