Places Lo C Wants to Go

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

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

Open-air cremations in Colorado's self-proclaimed spiritual mecca.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

These experimental weapons brought World War II to Nebraska as well as 26 other U.S. states.

America's smallest town is run by its single citizen/mayor/librarian/bartender.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

The site of a defunct mill, that once supplied marble for the construction of the Lincoln Memorial.

A unique arch graces the Dolores River Canyon near the Hanging Flume.

Historic, 19th-century wagon wheel ruts cut into soft volcanic ash.

Two creeks flow out of either end of this canyon in opposite directions.

A river runs through this remote valley in a very unexpected way.

Paleoamericans built these ancient walls high in the Colorado Rockies as part of an extensive hunting system.

The site of the "Bone Wars" between two rival paleontologists during the dinosaur rush of the 19th century.

The giant stump of the once towering cottonwood where Ute people held tribal meetings.

Unlike most arches, this geological oddity formed in a volcanic dike.

Hidden high on a remote mountain peak is a humbling and mysterious Vietnam War memorial.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.

A mental health hospital dating back more than 139 years, now features a museum.

An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

The wreckage of a World War II bomber is hidden high in the Colorado wilderness.