Places MiguelO Wants to Go

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

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

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.

Atop this media building, two hives containing more than 30,000 bees keep the surrounding area vibrant.

A surprising, but overlooked example of geology in the middle of the nation’s capital.

The first memorial dedicated solely to the Black troops who fought for the Union.

A muscular Art Deco monument represents the struggle between regulators and unbridled markets.

While most wind tunnels test scale models, the "Cave of Winds" was large enough for actual airplanes.

This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

The fountains of the U.S. Navy Memorial are annually salted with water from the Seven Seas as part of a nautical ritual.