Places makanabender Wants to Go

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

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

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

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.