Places Stefan Kowasch Wants to Go

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

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

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

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

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

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.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.