Places Michael K Wants to Go

The grounds of former plantations where abolitionist Harriet Tubman spent her youth enslaved are now a museum to her incredible life.

Enormous crabs, bioluminescent jellies, and other amazing creatures from the ocean’s depths—some of which are in an aquarium for the first time ever.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

Home to a full cast of the largest woolly mammoth ever recovered in North America. 

The train collection of an eccentric New England seafood mogul is now a National Historical Site.

Opened in 1976, this monster-sized version of the fast-food franchise is sometimes called the Epic McD.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

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

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

This covered bridge was used by both Union and Confederate troops during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

The site of the notorious Camp Sumter Prison is now a peaceful memorial.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.