Places lillicay Wants to Go

The formidable fowl can be found standing near an isolated hiking path.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

Hundreds of painted rocks dazzle this small beach where adding your own is encouraged.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

Not only is this nature preserve the largest protected freshwater island on the East Coast, but it’s also a stronghold of Gullah living.

This maze-like, oceanfront gift shop—the nation’s largest— has been serving kitsch to the Myrtle Beach community for over 80 years.

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

This house was used by the FBI to broadcast disinformation to the Nazis during World War II.

Forrest Gump ran past this iconic Maine lighthouse in his cinematic cross-country journey.

This uninhabited island in Maine is home to various works of art left by visitors over the years.

A far-flung tidal inlet off the coast of Maine produces some of the state’s tastiest oysters.