Places ravedog Wants to Go

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

The remains of the dam that unleashed a 15-foot wall of water on Denver.

At the tallest peak in Colorado, an electrifying mix of thin air, lightning, and rivalry.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

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

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

A 500-year-old series of tunnels long believed to be folkloric was uncovered beneath the streets of Puebla.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.