Places Natasha Leyk Wants to Go

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

This house was the subject of an Edward Hopper painting, which in turn helped inspire the design of the Bates house in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho.'

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.

Artifacts fill the old headquarters of the hugely influential political movement to ban alcohol in the United States.

An environmental art installation inspired by farmhouses and crop circles.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in North America is built of concrete designed to last 1,000 years.

This restored farmhouse is a time capsule of a 19th-century Colorado homestead.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.

A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

A statue high in a hill that represents how Buffalo Bill got his name.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.

Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.