Places marksuz Wants to Go

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

The largest drain hole in the world.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

The world of the ancient Celtic civilization explained through a bewitching 11 acre garden.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.