Places klamorey Wants to Go

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

A throwback train ride transports passengers through one of the lesser-known national parks in the country.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

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

The translucent turquoise hue of these natural swimming pools comes from a high concentration of minerals.

The same water that fills a luxury resort’s pools feeds these free hot springs in the rainforest.

A unique collection of more than 250 rocks and minerals located on a university campus.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

A Saxony castle houses one of the largest and most outstanding mineral collections in the world.

This 400-year-old sweet shop serves a delicacy some have described as "edible incense."

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.

All of the Malaysian sweets at this shop are made daily with a whole lot of love.

The impeccably spiced roast pork buns at this bakery are worth the wait.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

A massive display of meteorites all found in the Atacama Desert.

Initially meant to immortalize the valor of the colonizer, this monument is now a symbol of Mauritanian resistance.