Places Michael K Wants to Go

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The collection of a paranormal investigator who traveled the country collecting haunted items and stories.

The largest collection of historic military firearms in the United States.

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

During World War II, over 13,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated in this camp in the Idaho desert.

Home of the only civilian casualty at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

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

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

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

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.