Places shawadcock Wants to Go

A rare kind of blue bear can be found chiefly in the national park that shares their name.

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

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

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall, but rather lightning.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.

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