Places Logala Wants to Go

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

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Large rocks have been painted to whimsically resemble wild and farm animals.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.

This angular brutalist playground turns playtime into modern art time.