Places saeverud Wants to Go

Halfway up a volcano at the edge of the world’s largest salt flats is a cave with seven mummies.

A desert that evokes the surreal.

One of the world's most advanced radio observatories sprawls across the Atacama Desert.

The inspiration for the Patagonia Clothing logo, Cerro Fitz Roy turns pink at sunrise.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

A kaleidoscope gallery and steampunk emporium named for a pioneering journalist.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall, but rather lightning.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

The hottest place on the planet.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

This North African stone complex is considered to be the oldest astronomical observatory on Earth.

In the Arabian Desert, a surreal rock formation stands cut clean in half.

This giant volcanic crater holds its very own field of salt.

For centuries, Jeddah’s old town was a major trading port and a point of entry for Hajj pilgrims traveling by sea.