Places mobilemodo Wants to Go

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

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

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

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

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.

The highest point in Indiana is curated by an Eagle scout but may be in danger of losing its record to a nearby garbage pile.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

The only freestanding table rock formation east of the Mississippi.

This open air cathedral invites all faiths to worship under the only roof big enough to fit them all: the sky.

A 30-year-old Sycamore tree grown from a seed taken to the moon and back.

This mysterious hill seems to pull objects uphill.