Places rubysage Wants to Go

A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

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

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

One of the rare, saucer-shaped prefabricated homes designed by the Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in the 1960s.

This 25-foot-tall gorilla made his way from the Wildwood boardwalk to a Pine Barrens gas station and deli.

Hundreds of iconic jazz records were made in this church-like space.

Family-run for more than a century, this pizzeria makes a unique mustard pie.

These 20-foot sculptures will help guide you from the local train station to the local sculpture garden.

Amazingly, this old machine within the Resorts Casino still functions.

Take a step into the workshop where Edison and his employees revolutionized the world.

A small cave hidden deep within the Jenny Jump State Forest.

Along a busy beachfront strip you may hear Frank Sinatra singing from one boardwalk home.

Thousands of Matchbox cars spanning generations call this New Jersey barn home.

A surprising museum of 20th-century technology.

A "Bugseum" dedicated to all things insect-related resides behind a pest control company.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.