Places sarahltait Wants to Go

This 24-acre park offers a place for meditation in the midst of Sedona's iconic red rocks.

This pristine World War II airfield gives a comprehensive look at atomic development and aviation history.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

The limestone composition of this spectacular arch makes it unique to the region.

Visit the century-old plant nursery that grows trees from space.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

This prehistoric karst cave is situated near a working ranch and historic warm springs.

Once a mining boom town, Mogollon’s well-preserved buildings are tucked away in the mountains of the Gila National Forest.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

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

This historic pink parlor keeps Phoenicians cool with homemade, retro ice creams.

A former sanitarium where soldiers were sent to recover in the healing waters of hot springs.

This church was constructed by a shipbuilder and designed like an upside-down boat.

The only nuclear weapon assembly and disassembly plant in the U.S.

These otherworldly limestone formations jut out from the Kansas prairie.

A surviving concrete arrow from an early-20th-century airmail-navigation network overlooks a reservoir.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

An unprepossessing storage reservoir in southern Utah has a checkered past.

In 1975, a forestry worker in Arizona claimed to have been abducted by a UFO.

A mining camp built around an unexpected occurrence of silver.

Irontown was founded in 1868, as a second attempt to mine iron from the nearby Iron Mountain.