Places Shawb1 Wants to Go

A sharply wedged sundial marks the point at which each day in the United States begins.

Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.

A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

Originally built as a promotional giveaway, this suburban house was designed to be an IRL version of the Simpson home.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Where the famed daredevil attempted to launch himself across a canyon in a custom-built rocket.

The world's first nuclear power plant is open to visitors looking to role-play a meltdown.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

The narrow mountain road that carves a path between Florence and Victor is tied to ghost towns and ghost stories.

A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.

The first railway tunnel to cross the Continental Divide and, at 11,523 feet, was once the highest railroad tunnel in the world.

Only a few signs remain of the buried Colorado mining town that supplied the uranium for the first atomic bomb.

This marker identifies the location where three states converge.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

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