Places nejuum Wants to Go

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

A beautiful combination of living flora with preserved bones covers the shelves of this shop.

A home covered with elaborate mosaic and other pieces of art.

While comics are the main attraction at this megastore, the second floor plays host to an exhibit fit for a museum.

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.

A collection of over 15,000 zines works to preserve DIY publishing culture.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

From golden eagles to peregrine falcons, this rehabilitation and education center is a haven for birds of prey.

This teeny-tiny park built by a San Francisco man in 1962 is mostly stairs.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.

Inky sludge oozes to the surface of this beach thanks to a rare natural tar seep.

This park is home to well over 100 handmade birdhouses.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

This winding road of 318 curves is a must-visit for (careful) motorcycle and sports car enthusiasts.

The farm where one of America's greatest leaders was raised is now a well-appointed landmark.

This massive statue of John Muir on the side of a California highway was carved from a redwood tree.

Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

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

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.