Places piblyss Wants to Go

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

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

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

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

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

One of the most remote spots in America and the first protected wilderness area in Nevada, named after an old legend.

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

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

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

"Polynesia on the Plains."

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

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.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.