Places Roko Wants to Go

During World War II, over 13,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated in this camp in the Idaho desert.

Red ocher pictographs survive in this tufa rock shelter on the shore of an ancient lake.

A small Oregon museum is filled with a robust history.

It’s hard to believe this hostile landscape was once a health resort.

In the Ozarks, a waterfall shoots out from a glorious hole.

George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Benjamin Franklin all slept at this humble inn.

A group of college students hauled a desk up a mountain more than 40 years ago. The notebooks inside have become a makeshift time capsule.

Despite monuments in other locations, this spot in a South Dakota field is recognized by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey as the center of the 50 states.

One of Indiana's only natural sandstone arches is nestled between resort ruins and an old Boy Scouts camp.

This impressive ledge seems to float above the Upper Buffalo Wilderness.

Well-preserved ruins in the Pine Grove Hills of western Nevada.

Secluded springs in the Rio Grande Gorge offer hot bathing beside the haunted ruins of a stagecoach stop.

Thomas Dambo's troll sculpture wears a crown with birdhouses on his head.

A charming easy-to-miss sculpture garden filled with whimsical and thought-provoking metal sculptures.

Standing 191 feet tall and measuring more than 55 feet in circumference, this is the world's tallest spruce tree.

Stay in an old lookout cabin atop Oregon's spectacular Winter Ridge.

A small mountain made entirely of banded iron stone overlooking downtown Ishpeming.

This gravity-defying rock formation is one of Big Bend’s natural wonders.

A frog crossed this road, but whether it made it to the other side remains a mystery.

In eastern Oregon, two mineral hot springs sit along the Malheur River in a fairly desolate area where peace and quiet are abound.

A spring and an enigmatic cabin lie in a ponderosa pine forest in the heart of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge.

A small rural town hides Indiana's tallest waterfall.

Bodie's 20th-century rival was a paragon of respectability and calm—but the mines eventually ran dry.

Erosion has transformed this sandstone boulder into a massive dune-filled cavern.