Places OliverWDahl Wants to Go

Ride in 1960s style on the private luxury train Marshal Josip Tito used to travel around Yugoslavia.

The huge collection of paintings of the American West is one of Denver's best-kept secrets.

Unknown to many, this sparkling turquoise lake hides amid Oregon's snowcapped mountains.

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

Where the famed daredevil attempted to launch himself across a canyon in a custom-built rocket.

In 1952, this restaurant began selling the Colonel's “secret” recipe.

Soaring over the Niagara Whirlpool since 1916.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

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

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.