Places Shawb1 Wants to Go

The Cape of Good Hope is not quite as low as you can go on the African continent, but it's still geographically significant.

Safely view the Soufrière Hills volcano, which has been erupting since 1995.

Before its closure in 2002, this South Dakota mine was the largest and deepest gold mine in Western Hemisphere.

Two geologically young and nearly circular volcanic subsidence craters, each about a half-mile in diameter, abruptly break the nearly featureless Snake River Plain.

Pleistocene megafauna fossils are the subject of Nevada's newest state park at the northern edge of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

Much of the spectacular canyon followed over a century ago by the Los Angeles & Salt Lake railroad is now accessible to cars.

Some 46,000 years ago, a volcanic eruption led to a flooding event that carved this short canyon with steep vertical walls.

Learn about the history and hopeful future of Maine’s nesting birds at this interactive Audubon facility.

Take in the beauty of the Milky Way at one of the best sites for stargazing in Nevada—a state with some tough competition.

Once a famous outpost for purchasing saddles and spurs, this museum preserves the art, craft, and style of the American cowboy.

In the high desert east of Bend, the University of Oregon maintains a research observatory on a remote mountain peak.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

The narrow passages will challenge even the bravest driver.

This bridge was designed to connect a road that never came to fruition.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

A remote Arctic museum focusing on the science of icebergs and the archaeology of an ancient Inuit settlement which lies just outside its doors.

An ordinary rancher stumbled upon one of the world’s largest collections of Pliocene horse fossils.

This U.S. natural reserve is an ancient spiritual place and rock climber’s paradise.

Mysterious markers have been giving the public a lesson in dendrochronology for over a century.

The only undammed section of the Columbia River in the United States has been preserved, ironically, by its proximity to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

The last remnant of a tree that helped prove to the world that sequoias are real—and they’re spectacular.

Danish children are taught that Santa lives in Greenland, at this exact cabin.

One of Canada's premier radio observatories sits in a radio-quiet valley outside Penticton.

This relic is one of the last survivors of the earliest eras of the American railroad.