Places maharess Wants to Go

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

A board game enthusiast's love for the game, memorialized forever.

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

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

A relic of roadside lore and perhaps the first of its kind in North America.

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

The spot in the Mile-High City that's exactly 5,280 feet above sea level (at least for now).

You don't have to be a diplomat to visit the so-called Camp David of the West.

This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.

Mine your own precious stones.

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.

An Idaho legend carved out a cave village with his own two hands.

One of the largest fleets of armored vehicles in the world, sitting out in the California desert.

Colorado's only true geyser is hidden within the San Juan National Forest.

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

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.