Places NG3894 Wants to Go

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

Remnants of a town from a bygone era.

This rural museum highlights Wyoming's era of trapping and fur trades, and hosts the annual Green River Rendezvous in July.

A local museum remembers one of the worst acts of anti-Chinese violence in American history.

Named for a prominent scout and explorer, this Wyoming state park encompasses a replica of an 1840s trading post, a 19th-century Army outpost, and early 20th-century automobile lodgings.

Cabins once lived in by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are featured at this Old West living history museum.

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself.

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

Sculptures, jams, and the wild west collide at this folksy retreat.

New England's tallest light house stands on an island with a history of cannibalism and death.

The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.