Places naturetack Wants to Go

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

A bronze monument to Cleveland's favorite, fastest son.

The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.

This moving cemetery sphere is a slowly rolling stone.

A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.

Inside, ancient treasures. Outside, modern contradictions.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

Deep scars on the earth left by the Ice Age.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.