Places SamIam09 Wants to Go

This Myrtle Beach art museum features a rotating display of pieces by artists from James Audubon to Frank Lloyd Wright, but it’s their collection of Southern works that truly impresses.

Take in some Air Force history—and ogle some beautiful planes—at this little-known park near Myrtle Beach’s seashore.

From the 1940 Ford Coupe that started it all 50 years ago, this collection of over 150 classic vehicles celebrates the spirit and history of American car craft.

Take a stroll through this centuries-old tunnel of enormous moss-hung evergreens, nestled among the grounds of America’s first public sculpture garden.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.

Each winter this underground cave forms a dazzling ice palace.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

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

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

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

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

Although now a decaying ruin, this stone cabin's history includes several notable figures.