Places misshalili Wants to Go

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

An underwater city for the dead.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

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

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

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

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.