Places rbenn250 Wants to Go

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

This sundial indicates the time based on where you stand within it.

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.

Hike, ski, or snowshoe to a backcountry yurt that serves up gourmet, four-course dinners.

A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.

Stay in a luxury cabin or refurbished Airstream in this former mining camp-turned-retreat.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall, but rather lightning.

The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.

A small research station sits at the summit of this mountain, which is one of the few U.S. peaks higher than 14,000 feet outside of the Sierra Nevada.

Thousands of acres of beautiful wild landscape in the Great Basin.

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

This colossal underground passage paved the way for large-scale drainage and access tunnels across the U.S., but it almost wasn’t built.

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

On the summer solstice each year, shadows align with a 14,000 square foot painting to reveal a secret message.

The only standing town in the United States that early Chinese Americans built for themselves.

The longest covered bridge west of the Mississippi River.

A wondrous place to watch a special flower bloom.

The self-proclaimed gateway to the Extraterrestrial Highway.

Narrow slot canyons in a badland eroded into soft sedimentary rock provide an otherworldly landscape in this remote Nevada state park.

Colorful sand dunes create a unique attraction in this part of Utah's red-rock country.

A long and winding trail through history led to the current iteration of this mountaintop tower.