Places shatomica Wants to Go

A vibrant colony of rescued wolves and other canids.

This mountaintop refuge rehabilitates tigers, lions, bears, and more from illicit wildlife trade—and offers overnight lodging.

This restaurant serves wood-fired fare served in a natural cave with a live spring.

The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.

Explore a misty river canyon from a metal bridge system.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

A 6,888-carat piece of turquoise that bears a striking resemblance to the first President of the United States.

An ode to the history of telephones inside a telephone building.

Once an ancient sea, this landscape of rocky ravines is filled with the fossils of ancient marine life.

Come for the fried chicken, stay for the history at Oklahoma's oldest bar.

The only remaining sod house Oklahoma built by a homesteader in 1894.

One of the oldest continually operated libraries in Kansas.

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

Unopened beer cans are left at this monument to honor the Navy men who lost their lives during a training mission.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.

Named after an outlaw who used the basin as a hideout.

This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.

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

This library is a reader's paradise and a plant lover's dream.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

This bomb shelter-themed bar has barely changed since it opened.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.