Places naturetack Wants to Go

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.