Places pikapika Wants to Go

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

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

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.