Places Mike Walker Wants to Go

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

A tiny, picturesque island, where cows and wild horses wander around the houses.

Incredible labyrinth of man made caves.

A Google software engineer's Easter egg led to what may be the world's most unusual saved screenshot.

Learn about the history and hopeful future of Maine’s nesting birds at this interactive Audubon facility.

The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.

No longer the only, but definitely the oldest, fountain in Greenland.

Around the perimeter of San Francisco’s second-largest park is a meandering 2.7-mile path designed to inspire contemplation.

This rural bridge gave the government of West Virginia a red scare.

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

The railroad turning train travel into a cinematic, highly immersive experience has a fascinating connection to Game of Thrones.

A prehistoric rock shelter that's literally in someone's backyard.

A home covered with elaborate mosaic and other pieces of art.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

This everlasting lightning storm may be the world's largest generator of ozone.

For books about travel, whether factual or fictional, the perfect antiquarian does exist.

The chefs at El Diablo use heat generated by an active volcano to cook the food.

Two artist-designed restrooms are part of the collection at the Smith College Museum of Art.

Hidden in the garden of physicist Erwin Schrödinger's house is a life-size figure of a cat from his famous thought experiment.

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

This little known mountain has claimed four times as many lives as Everest.