Places semken Wants to Go

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

The so-called "Father of Las Vegas" had the city's first telephone installed in his office in 1907.

At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.

A small but industrious mining operation that allows visitors to touch precious gems while they are still in the rock.

There are eight natural springs around town, each with a slightly different taste.

Located in the world's highest-altitude Dark Sky Community, this observatory welcomes amateur and professional astronomers alike.

The larger of two volcanic peaks rising out of the crystalline waters of the Caribbean.

The world's only above water sand volcano, believed to once be the bathtub of a priest.

Tour the inside of a massive lava tube formed during a 1949 volcanic eruption.

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

A volcanic cone that formed over 600 years ago.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Deep vertical fissures like miniature slot canyons cut across the cemented volcanic rock of Black Point above Mono Lake.

An unexpected sinkhole in a desert flat within Gold Butte National Monument.

Generations of rockhounds got their start at this beloved, historic mine.

Small-town museum dedicated to outer space ... and bicycles.

This razorback ridgeline has doubled as a scenic drive since the early 1900s.

The site of the "Bone Wars" between two rival paleontologists during the dinosaur rush of the 19th century.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.

This railroad track was so secretive that it was omitted from all maps.