Places Melanicholia Wants to Go

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

The "Grand Canyon of Southwestern Idaho" makes a spectacular gash across the flat Snake River plain.

A limestone cave filled with impressive formations in Mole Creek Karst National Park.

Idaho’s largest, deepest limestone cave is known for its quirky rock formations and bat population.

Star garnets are so rare that you can only find them in two places on Earth—here, you can dig for them.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

Metal dinosaurs lurk in a sculpture garden on the outskirts of a popular resort town.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

Tucked away in a secluded canyon, this hidden hot spring’s thermal waters have been soothing soakers for generations.

A 40-foot waterfall hidden in a desert oasis.

An allegedly cursed tree represents a town's reckoning with a racist past.

The radio station that's been promising to make love to you for the last 15 years—if you happen to be on one specific block in suburban New Jersey.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

Conifers from the Jurassic Period transformed into stone in Patagonia.

The inspiration for the Patagonia Clothing logo, Cerro Fitz Roy turns pink at sunrise.

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

This arid landscape was once a lush wetland. Today, it's a paleontological site filled with fossilized mammoths, sabertooth cats, and more.

Pleistocene megafauna fossils are the subject of Nevada's newest state park at the northern edge of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

A family-owned store specializing in minerals, geodes, gemstones, and more.

The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.