Places quartzcity Wants to Go

A memorial to the late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, who died at this location, along with seven others, in a plane crash in 2002.

The remains of the worst maritime disaster in the history of the "Graveyard of the Pacific."

Hidden in the garden of physicist Erwin Schrödinger's house is a life-size figure of a cat from his famous thought experiment.

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

This remote camping site offers incredible stargazing opportunities.

The world's largest solar furnace uses 10,000 mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays to generate power.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

This large chunk of dark rock is a relic from an ancient volcanic eruption.

In 1909, the steepest and most difficult piece of track on the Canadian Pacific Railway was replaced with a series of spiralling tunnels cut into the mountains.

The remnants of an early automobile route across shifting sand dunes can still be found in the deserts of Southern California.

This historic tower in the California desert promises visitors a "vortex of good vibes".

The way that light hits a stained glass window on a specific day is one of many "clues" to a mysterious treasure.

A planet-hunting astrograph built in the 1920s to seek out the so-called "Planet X" beyond Uranus.

A short but powerful waterfall resides amid Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes.

The precious-metals strikes dating back to the 1860s are now mostly inactive, but this area has become the United States' only domestic source of lithium.

This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

Two geoglyphs that are truly unique to North America.

Drive up a paved road into "Nevada's Yosemite" for exquisite views and mountain hiking in an alpine setting.

Built as a schoolhouse in 1914, this Mission-style building has also served as a dancehall, a library, an Army canteen, and now a cultural museum.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

Many generations of travelers have passed through the steep, smooth walls of this canyon.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.