Places Michelle Cassidy Wants to Go

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

This quirky local sculpture is quite literally a fish out of water.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

An authentic replica of an Asian temple and garden hidden amongst the natural beauty of Hawai'i.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

Walk through row upon row of manicured miniature trees at the United States' largest bonsai nursery.

This Minnesota-shaped forest is actually located in the state it is shaped like.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

Despite its lavish ornamentation, and wholesome lifestyle of its devotees, this mountain commune has faced its share of issues.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.