Places roadtriptammy Wants to Go

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in suburban Ohio.

These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.

Artifacts fill the old headquarters of the hugely influential political movement to ban alcohol in the United States.

The final resting place of the most famous sharpshooter.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.