Places kateemv Wants to Go

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.