Places rubysage Wants to Go

This 35-foot troll in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, was made by the world’s leading recycling artist as part of a global fairytale.

The world's largest mineral hot springs is home to a herd of bison, a free public bath house, beautiful mineral formations, and a terrifying swinging bridge.

One of the largest collections of wildlife art in the United States, built into the side of a cliff in rural Wyoming.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

Creek water that starts here has a 50/50 chance of ending up in the Atlantic or the Pacific.

A miraculous natural phenomenon known as "the spring that breathes."

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

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

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Wisconsin’s oldest Chinese restaurant, still glowing beneath its historic neon sign.

In 1953, a group of Wisconsin high school students helped build a hospital by collecting over a million pennies.

Exhibits from an island in Lake Michigan are preserved in this hand-built cabin museum.

Prayers and messages of hope decorate the ceramic tiles of this pavilion.

A museum celebrating the self-taught artist-environment builder.

This lakefront cottage was crafted in the 1800s and was once a sanitorium.

This huge stew pot is the focal point of the "Community Soup" event, which honors tradition and soup.

A statue honors the genius who allegedly first took a meatball and made it into a hamburger.

This forgotten beach house built to look like a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece overlooks a hidden beach.

Every winter, dozens of otherworldly ice structures sprout up from a rigged up artesian well.

The preserved remains of the former Milwaukee County Hospital for the Insane are hidden in the wooded grounds of County Park.