Places Mike Walker Wants to Go

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

At 16,627 feet above sea level, this unstaffed station is the highest in the world.

The highest monastery in the world operates a tiny guesthouse with doors open to all.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall, but rather lightning.

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

Avenue of trees planted by cosmonauts before their space departures.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

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

The Kenyan town where the best distance runners in the world are trained.

The largest cave shaft in the world is home to thousands of birds and popular with BASE jumpers.

A magical sinkhole on the Yucatán Peninsula is adorned with mini waterfalls and hanging vines.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.