Places phildzielski Wants to Go

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

A replica that won't float away.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

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

The grand marquee of this abandoned Hawaiian theater remembers the building's elegant past.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

During the solar phenomenon "Lahaina Noon" this bendy, curvy sculpture forms a perfectly circular shadow on the ground.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

Doris Duke's lasting collection of Islamic Art, hidden in a Hawaiian paradise.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

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

This ancient Hawaiian henge may have been an early star chart.

A rare wayfinding portmanteau of “Street” and “Avenue.”

A mistaken marker makes an erroneous claim along the historic Old Divide Road.