Places NG3894 Wants to Go

Home to a timed geyser created by complete accident.

A creek tumbles over a series of step-like rocks to create this scenic water feature.

This set of hot springs also comes with fantastic views.

This cheery fruit farmer welcomes visitors to a classic roadside emporium.

This is one really big nut.

In a largely deserted ghost town, a little brick building recalls its history as a gold rush hub and haven for outlaws.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Dad jokes and wordplay abound in this comic fake cemetery.

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

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

Inside this magical collection, you can buy recipes cooked up by church ladies, motorcycle clubs, and clowns.

Underneath downtown Lincoln resides a network of caves that was also the city's first brewery.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

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