Places Roko Wants to Go

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

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

A spectacular overlook of the Little Grand Canyon of the San Rafael River, a deep sandstone gorge streaked with orange, red and white in a remote, uncrowded part of Utah.

A crack flared at the base provides a pathway completely through a sandstone ridge near Moab.

The last SR-71 ever constructed.

Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.

An improbable waterfall springs from an orange-white cliff face, tumbling into the headwaters of the Virgin River above Zion National Park.

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

The highest peak in Utah is the hardest to reach, but only if explorers choose the hard way.

A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.