Places kstav Wants to Go

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

Terraced flowerbeds and rock sculptures in the midst of the Minnesota wilderness.

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.

The world's longest known cave system.

The simple log cabin of a famed loner and naturalist stands preserved as a symbol of the ultimate DIY lifestyle.

This conservation area is also home to many of the region's desert tortoises.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

Windswept and remote, this island was once the home of a rare mammoth and today is home to a rare tree.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

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

An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.