Places Mezmobal Wants to Go

A glimpse of a waterfall is reached by a steel catwalk along a slot canyon located in an Ouray city park.

Let Ouray’s tallest waterfall sweep your breath away on a dealer’s choice of scenic hikes.

A recreation of an Old West apothecary full of curios.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

For books about travel, whether factual or fictional, the perfect antiquarian does exist.

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

Inside the Wayne County airport is an amazing collection of lights and sounds.

Once a bastion of its community, this gothic cathedral now stands as a haunting ruin.

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

Hamissi Mamba and Nadia Nijimbere opened this community-minded restaurant serving dishes from their native Burundi.

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

The largest recovered section of Titanic sits in a hotel in Las Vegas.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

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

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

A unique shopping and dining park created from old shipping containers and filled with local businesses.