Places rkurchak Wants to Go

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

The largest and most well-preserved petroglyph site in the Verde Valley.

A 6-mile-long lake created by an apocalyptic seismic event and the deadly chain reaction that ensued.

This was one of the first (and last) university-built and operated nuclear reactors.

A quirky assortment of musical marvels from around the world.

A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

A museum dedicated to the legacy of Bob Moog and his pioneering synthesizers.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

This museum collects over a century of automobile history including the iconic car from The Muppet Movie.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

This towering volcanic plug stands out among the dramatic formations that dot this otherworldly desert valley.

For decades, this waterfall remained hidden because of an artificial dam.

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

A scenic ravine with an astounding collection of rock art created by the Indigenous people of the Great Plains.

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.