Places Rick Brown Wants to Go

Colorado's oldest church is now home to the largest handmade adobe labyrinth in the world.

Climb to the top of this spiritual tower, and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in North America is built of concrete designed to last 1,000 years.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

An urban laboratory.

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

A local shop filled with handcrafted art and funky home furnishings, vintage, and antiques.

This roadside park filled with unusual statues is on the grounds of an abandoned railway station.

Rusted and decayed, this former mining site is a portal to the past.

A 40-foot waterfall flows into this unique natural swimming hole.

Away from the crowds of fishing enthusiasts, take a hike deep into the woods and journey into an eerie darkness.

A flat slab of stone perched hundreds of feet above the Gasconade River in the northern Ozark mountains.

The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.