Places schodek Wants to Go

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The world's longest known cave system.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

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

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.