Places Mike Walker Wants to Go

A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.

This grand stone tower was dedicated to a famed American humorist almost by coincidence.

A research lab and hands-on museum where visitors can experiment with retro technology.

In the middle of a suburban Denver neighborhood is a cave that once provided solace for a prominent Ute chief and his family.

Unlike most arches, this geological oddity formed in a volcanic dike.

Two creeks flow out of either end of this canyon in opposite directions.

Historic, 19th-century wagon wheel ruts cut into soft volcanic ash.

The narrow mountain road that carves a path between Florence and Victor is tied to ghost towns and ghost stories.

Take a dip in the world's largest mineral hot springs pool.

Winter and summer solstice aligned sculpture in the middle of nowhere.

One of the oldest art supply stores in the United States.

A small tower where a philosopher once speculated on human nature and morality.

What happened to the three lighthouse keepers who vanished from this place remains a mystery over a century later.

An oversized bluebird statue returns to its rightful place on Vilano Beach pier.

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

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.