Places makanabender Wants to Go

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

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

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

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

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

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

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

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

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

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

The ruins of a significant 16th-century building once appeared in a 1969 film.

Water demonstrates its carving power along a Cumbrian trail.