Places kristenwilloughby Wants to Go

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

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

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

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

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

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

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.

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

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

Legendary private island in the Bronx...devoid of rats.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

The loneliest island in New York.

A giant ball made from pieces of an old Jeep.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.

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

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

This dilapidated castle-like structure overlooks the Hudson River at one of its widest points and was once home to nuns.