Places michaelamiller Wants to Go

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

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

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

A museum, walk-through diorama, and library nestled under one castle-like roof.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

This extinct shield volcano is the lightning rod of the Cascades.

This great stone guardian of the forest is a relic from the land's volatile volcanic past.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.