Places Shawb1 Wants to Go

This hidden gem along the Utah-Arizona border is truly worth the rugged journey.

A surviving concrete arrow from an early-20th-century airmail-navigation network overlooks a reservoir.

The southernmost point in the United States is a beautiful place to look at but a deadly place to wade in.

More than 2,000 species of tropical plants call this nature preserve and sanctuary home.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

This Hawaiian cattle ranch acts as a museum devoted to the island cowboys that predate the wild west.

This unusual lava tube spouts seawater during high surf.

This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

It appears as if a man is standing behind this giant airport clock, painting the hands in real time.

Get your gift of the gab on Route 66.

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.

An assortment of armored tanks and Howitzer cannons in the middle of the Sonoran Desert.

This unique art installation used boiler tubes from a decommissioned power plant to resemble Antelope Canyon.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.

Idaho’s largest, deepest limestone cave is known for its quirky rock formations and bat population.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

A monument to the egos of two railroad magnates that fell into decline along with their careers.

This UFO landing strip was created by a charitable Wyoming city that was worried about residents of Jupiter.

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

The only retired U.S. nuclear missile silo that is open to the public.

An unusual geological feature towers over the remains of a dark episode in United States history.