Places NoraNelson Wants to Go

A concrete arrow from a 1920s airmail navigation network.

A surviving concrete arrow from an early-20th-century airmail-navigation network overlooks a reservoir.

This coastal cavern is associated with the Hawaiian god of creation.

Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.

Taste rums made with heirloom sugarcane on the distillery's own estate.

An authentic replica of an Asian temple and garden hidden amongst the natural beauty of Hawai'i.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

A crack flared at the base provides a pathway completely through a sandstone ridge near Moab.

Millions of years of erosion created the feature for which this rock formation is aptly named.

A 26-foot-tall jackrabbit celebrates the past and future of the Southwest.

A spring and an enigmatic cabin lie in a ponderosa pine forest in the heart of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge.

This supper club is a slice of old Las Vegas.

Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

This arid landscape was once a lush wetland. Today, it's a paleontological site filled with fossilized mammoths, sabertooth cats, and more.

A blast of nostalgia awaits visitors to this miniature indoor raceway.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.