Places rosetatarsky Wants to Go

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.

This junkyard made over as a theme park is the "Most Alaskan place in Alaska."

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

An auroral research program that superheats the ionosphere.

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

Joe Minter is only doing the work of God in his yard, he says.

These ruins are all that's left of the former Alabama State Capitol.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.