Places quartzcity Wants to Go

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

The decaying remains of a ship whose captain mysteriously disappeared.

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

One of the largest ancient geoglyphs in the world is a tall desert god used for predicting the weather.

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

Site of the world's largest nuclear explosion.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

This colorful artistic feature atop a Danish art gallery allows visitors to stroll through a rainbow.

This hotel is located on the edge of the world's largest salt flat and is made out of the only material around.

Crammed inside this grounded passenger plane is a bar that was once a Communist hang out and is now a ratty relic.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

Rumor had it that these concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland helped align spy satellites. (They didn’t.)

Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

Gouged in the mountain to make stage coach access easier through the Fremont Pass.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.