Places Pengwn Wants to Go

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

A miraculous natural phenomenon known as "the spring that breathes."

The world's first nuclear power plant is open to visitors looking to role-play a meltdown.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

A museum dedicated to the history and art of staying clean.

These century-old beehive-shaped kilns were built to produce charcoal for nearby mines.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

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

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

A small section of Boise, Idaho maintains the unique culture and traditions of the Basque people.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

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

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

The smallest country in the world.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

The "world's smallest volcano" has been used to store meals and dispose of dead bodies.