Places Shawb1 Wants to Go

This magnificent natural sandstone bridge is one of the largest in the world and is an iconic symbol for Lake Powell.

The birthplace of both the Atomic Age and Godzilla, and the namesake of the bathing suit.

Site of the world's largest nuclear explosion.

One of the most horrible legacies of the Cold War is a site where the Soviet Union tested nuclear bombs on civilians.

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.

Someone really, really wanted to save this fast-food icon from demolition.

This mile marker stands at the unofficial end of a highway built to defend the United States from a Japanese invasion during World War II.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

These colorful French islands spent a stint bootlegging booze during American Prohibition.

The tiny airport in remote Newfoundland that inspired a hit musical is also a modernist architectural gem.

Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.

Natural earth mounds formed in the far north.

The Arctic Archipelago is home to world's largest third order island: an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.

Inside this faux cave, visitors can learn how some of their favorite fantasy characters were created.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

A cross marks the spot in a small Scottish village that claims to be the exact center of the country.

The world's largest neutrino telescope searches for secrets of the universe at the South Pole.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.