Places marytreptow Wants to Go

This unique competition celebrates an American Indian and Canadian First Nation cultural tradition.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

Despite a recent paint job, the factory still sits empty.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

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

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

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

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

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

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

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

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