Places rachelannpr Wants to Go

Creek water that starts here has a 50/50 chance of ending up in the Atlantic or the Pacific.

A surviving concrete arrow from an early-20th-century airmail-navigation network overlooks a reservoir.

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

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

Welcome to a feel-good American drugstore, in the classic sense of the term.

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

This lonely gas station has stood at this location since 1917.

This old selenite mine is dotted with tiny crystals that make it shimmer like it's covered in glitter.

A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.

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.

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.

Kay Andrews's recipe was so good, her family immortalized it in stone.

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

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.