Places skylarkmatthews Wants to Go

Providing the soundtrack to the golden years of the Seattle grunge scene.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

Secret hideaway for an alternative beach experience.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

One of the world's most definitive collections of musical instruments, spanning all cultures and historical periods.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

The abandoned remnants of a little sanctuary for world peace that fell into disrepair.

America's smallest town is run by its single citizen/mayor/librarian/bartender.

Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".