Places Stefan Kowasch Wants to Go

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

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

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

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

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.