Places sarahltait Wants to Go

Built for a motel, this cartoon dino is now a symbol of the area's paleontological heritage.

Three witches are said to be buried beneath these unmarked concrete graves.

A boulder so big and tough, they had to turn it into a landmark.

Taos Pueblo recipes, foraged ingredients, and outdoor ovens define the menu at this eatery.

Up-close opportunities to see working birds of prey.

This jet-infused peak marks the traditional northern boundary of the Navajo nation.

Secluded springs in the Rio Grande Gorge offer hot bathing beside the haunted ruins of a stagecoach stop.

A saloon and inn that served the Wild West's most iconic figures—and is still haunted by some of them today.

A waterfall and cave near Arroyo Seco that inspired the writings of D. H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, and Mabel Dodge Luhan.

An unconventional monument to one of America's largest landowners.

Spectacular 300-foot cliffs in a lush mountain canyon.

A multicolored mineral mound dribbles piping hot spring water right off the side of a highway.

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

The highest point in Oklahoma used to be a lawless outlaw's paradise.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

Stay in a luxury cabin or refurbished Airstream in this former mining camp-turned-retreat.

Colorado's only true geyser is hidden within the San Juan National Forest.

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

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.

Home to fossils and other specimens from the Western Interior Seaway.

The ruins of the northernmost pueblo in the Americas tell the story of a mixing of native cultures.

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

This maintained cabin is where Josie Morris, an occasional associate of Butch Cassidy, lived out the last 50 years of her life by herself.