Places patricklongmire Wants to Go

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

A rare kind of blue bear can be found chiefly in the national park that shares their name.

The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

An abandoned network of military bunkers and tunnels open for anyone willing to descend into the darkness.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

This Cold War siren is one off the last of its kind still standing with its immensely powerful original horn.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.